Can't persist the cookie

[JimFoye]

ticket is an instance of FormsAuthenticationTicket;

HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket));

if (ticket.IsPersistent)
cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1);

Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);

I added the 2 lines to set cookie expiration after seeing that in an article
written by an MS employee. Alas, it doesn't help.

Any ideas?

[v.m]

Did you try.

cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);

HTH,
venkat.Murthy


"JimFoye" <JimFoye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ED07E442-7148-41A8-9597-3EF531278EDE@microsoft.com...

> ticket is an instance of FormsAuthenticationTicket;
>
> HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
> FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket));
>
> if (ticket.IsPersistent)
> cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1);
>
> Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
>
> I added the 2 lines to set cookie expiration after seeing that in an
> article
> written by an MS employee. Alas, it doesn't help.
>
> Any ideas?
>

[JimFoye]

That doesn't help. Why would setting the expiration back a year help? But I
appreciate the response.

The authentication API seems very confused. Why is a ticket persistent?
Isn't the cookie persistent? Would I want to persist the cookie and not the
ticket, or vice versa? And why do the published code samples NOT WORK?

"v.m" wrote:

> Did you try.
>
> cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);
>
> HTH,
> venkat.Murthy
>
>
> "JimFoye" <JimFoye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED07E442-7148-41A8-9597-3EF531278EDE@microsoft.com...

> > ticket is an instance of FormsAuthenticationTicket;
> >
> > HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
> > FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket));
> >
> > if (ticket.IsPersistent)
> > cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1);
> >
> > Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
> >
> > I added the 2 lines to set cookie expiration after seeing that in an
> > article
> > written by an MS employee. Alas, it doesn't help.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >

>
>
>

[Jim Foye]

Here's another example of API confusion. I can add a cookie, or I can set a
cookie. Hmmmm.....that's clear as mud, isn't it? What does it mean to call
set on a collection? But there it is

Context.Response.Cookies.Set(cookie);

I defy anyone to tell me that's logical.

"v.m" wrote:

> Did you try.
>
> cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);
>
> HTH,
> venkat.Murthy
>
>
> "JimFoye" <JimFoye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED07E442-7148-41A8-9597-3EF531278EDE@microsoft.com...

> > ticket is an instance of FormsAuthenticationTicket;
> >
> > HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
> > FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket));
> >
> > if (ticket.IsPersistent)
> > cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddYears(1);
> >
> > Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
> >
> > I added the 2 lines to set cookie expiration after seeing that in an
> > article
> > written by an MS employee. Alas, it doesn't help.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >

>
>
>