Forms Authentication for multiple subapplications

[javatopia]

Hello,

I have a series of applications that have URLS like the following:

http://www/root/app1
http://www/root/app2
http://www/root/app3

All have the same domain and root URL, but different application node names.

I need to have a single sign-on for all of the web applications. I've tried
using the same cookie name in the forms authentication configuration, but
that doesn't work. is there something I should be doing? I encode my custom
user login ID into the forms authentication cookie using the following code:

FormsAuthentica tion.SetAuthCoo kie(myUserName, false);
string uniqueKey = MyCryptoCode.En crypt(id.ToStri ng(), MY_COOKIE_KEY);
HttpCookie authCookie =
HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Co okies[FormsAuthentica tion.FormsCooki eName];
FormsAuthentica tionTicket ticket =
FormsAuthentica tion.Decrypt(au thCookie.Value) ;
ticket = new FormsAuthentica tionTicket(
ticket.Version,
ticket.Name,
ticket.IssueDat e,
ticket.Expirati on,
ticket.IsPersis tent,
uniqueKey,
ticket.CookiePa th);
authCookie.Valu e = FormsAuthentica tion.Encrypt(ti cket);
Response.SetCoo kie(authCookie) ;

Thanks

-- Jake

[Jeff Siver]

In the Machine.Config, you need to update the machineKey setting. If you
are on a single web server, just remove the IsolateApps setting. If you are
in a web far, you have to set the validationKey and decryptionKey to their
values. To generate these values see the MSKB
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;312906.

Jeff

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Hello,

I have a series of applications that have URLS like the following:

http://www/root/app1
http://www/root/app2
http://www/root/app3

All have the same domain and root URL, but different application node
names.

I need to have a single sign-on for all of the web applications. I've
tried
using the same cookie name in the forms authentication configuration, but
that doesn't work. is there something I should be doing? I encode my
custom
user login ID into the forms authentication cookie using the following
code:

FormsAuthentica tion.SetAuthCoo kie(myUserName, false);
string uniqueKey = MyCryptoCode.En crypt(id.ToStri ng(), MY_COOKIE_KEY);
HttpCookie authCookie =
HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Co okies[FormsAuthentica tion.FormsCooki eName];
FormsAuthentica tionTicket ticket =
FormsAuthentica tion.Decrypt(au thCookie.Value) ;
ticket = new FormsAuthentica tionTicket(
ticket.Version,
ticket.Name,
ticket.IssueDat e,
ticket.Expirati on,
ticket.IsPersis tent,
uniqueKey,
ticket.CookiePa th);
authCookie.Valu e = FormsAuthentica tion.Encrypt(ti cket);
Response.SetCoo kie(authCookie) ;

Thanks

-- Jake