Retrieving Forms Authentication Cookie

[angela]

Hi,

Quick question:

I have set a persistent cookie on my login page and have the following
in the web config.

<forms name="BeanAppAuth" loginUrl="Login.aspx" protection="All" />

I know I can do this:

Dim objUserIdentity As FormsIdentity
If User.Identity.IsAuthenticated Then
objUserIdentity = User.Identity
Response.Write(objUserIdentity.Name)
End If

To get the username but how do I do this via the cookie name??
Response.Cookies("BeanAppAuth").Value ??

Thanks

Angela

 

[Brock Allen]

What are you trying to do? The username is encrypted inside of the cookie,
so the way ASP.NET presents this to your code is to make User.Identity.Name
avaialble as a public API from your page.