how to update context.user without postback ...ing

[Softlion]

Hi,
I'm using form authentication in a user control with fires an onSignedOn
event to registered page controls,
so there is no need to postback a second time to reflect changes.

It seems the Context.User.Identity stays a GenericIdentity object even after
calling FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie, and there is no method in the
FormsAuthentication class to do that.

Is the source code for FormsAuthentication class available ?
Any workaround without postbacking ?

Thanks.
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[Dominick Baier]

Context.User gets populated after the postback by the formsauthentication
module. If you don't need a postback -set Context.User yourself.

Source code is available. As all the ASP.NET code is. Just google.

 

[Softlion]

From FormsAuthenticationModule.cs source code line 140 :

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Step 6: Create a user object for the ticket
e.Context.SetPrincipalNoDemand(new GenericPrincipal(new
FormsIdentity(ticket2), new String[0]));


SetPrincipalNoDemand is a non public function,
and Context.User is read only ....

Any other idea ?

 

[Softlion]

Maybe not in fact. There is a public set which calls SetPrincipalNoDemand.

So :
Context.User = new GenericPrincipal(new FormsIdentity(ticket2), new
String[0]);
should be sufficient ?


(from HttpContext.cs):

public IPrincipal User {
get { return _user; }
[SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, ControlPrincipal=true)]
set {
SetPrincipalNoDemand(value);
}

 

[Softlion]

It works !