Forked Login Implementation -- How to do this?

[Steve Commisso]

I'm trying to create a forked login where users of certain roles will be
redirected to specific pages.

The easy way to do this would be to do the redirecting in the
Page_Load() of the default page after login, but I'd like to skip this
step and just have the Login control go ahead and do it.

So my plan is this: override the OnLoggedIn() method of the Login
control with my own custom method that changes the DestinationPage Url
property of the Login control.

Here's the code (in my code-behind page, Login.aspx.cs):

void OnLoggedIn(obje ct sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (System.Web.Sec urity.Roles.IsU serInRole ("engineers" ))
Login1.Destinat ionPageUrl = "Engineering.as px";
else
Login1.Destinat ionPageUrl = "Default.as px";
}

Here's the ASP code for the control (Login.aspx):

<asp:Login ID="Login1" Runat="server"
OnLoggedIn=OnLo ggedIn
</asp:Login>
I'm running into a few problems:

1) I know my method is overloading properly because whatever I put for
the Url under the 'else' statement is where I'm redirected to. This
means that the IsUserInRole() method is always returning false -- but
isn't the OnLoggedIn() method supposed to fire right after the user is
validated? Because of this, shouldn't the IsUserInRole() method work
since there's a current user to check?

2) If I'm redirected to the Login page so that there's a ReturnURL="..."
in the address bar, that ReturnURL seems to override the
DestinationPage URL property, which I thought I had read overrides all
default redirections. I guess this is wrong?
So basically, is it feasible to do this 'forking' via the Login control?
Or am I going to have to do it somewhere else.

Thanks in advance,
Steve Commisso

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