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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Jun 21, 2011 @ 11:54
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Auto-login member (front-end)
With Umbraco 4.7 is it possible to auto login a member - to access a protected area?

My main issue is that I previous had a working solution with Umbraco 4.0.x - using a code snippet from this forum post: Auto-login as a member for Google Mini Search

Using this to inherit/override the "default.aspx" / "umbraco.UmbracoDefault" page/class:
```
protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!umbraco.library.IsLoggedOn())
    {
        // check if UserAgent contains a specific string
        if (Request.UserAgent.Contains("***hidden***")
        {
            // Auto Login
            var m = Member.GetMemberFromEmail("[email protected]");
            Member.AddMemberToCache(m, true, TimeSpan.FromHours(1));
            Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl, true);
        }
    }
}
```
But, this no longer seems to work in Umbraco v4.7 (after an upgrade).

Thinking that it's most likely a cookie related issue - either with Umbraco or the MembershipProvider?

Any ideas, suggestions? I'd really appreciated it - starting to pull my hair out with this! :-$

Thanks, Lee.
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Mads Krohn 211 posts 504 karma points c-trib

Jun 21, 2011 @ 12:28
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Hey Lee

I'm pretty sure that Umbraco 4.5.x and up uses the .net built-in membership stuff per default.
This means, that you should try and use the native membership functions, I at least, have had great success with it so far.

I havent testet this exact code, but you should be able to do something like this in your auto login part:
```
var member = Membership.GetUserNameByEmail(email);
var ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(string name, bool isPersistent, int timeout);
var encryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket); 
var authCookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encryptedTicket) { Expires = ticket.Expiration };
Response.Cookies.Add(authCookie); 
Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl, true); 
```
Hope this can help you :)

/Mads
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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Jun 21, 2011 @ 13:23
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Thanks Mads!

Seems it was a different issue... my Web.config was missing the "cookieless=UseCookies" attribute for "system.web/authentication/forms"
```
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="yourAuthCookie" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/" cookieless="UseCookies" />
</authentication>
```
After that, my original code works fine!

Cheers, Lee.

I'm setting the AuthCookie manually - just in case - thanks for the tip!
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