Hi.

I am trying to do FormsAuthentication login using an external table, where i store my Members. I do this because, need to ability create alot of members.. 1000-5000 every now an then.. And i dont want that type of member, along side the other type of member i need.

Iam using webapi to send the username and password, and it seem to work fine, but the member is not logged in.

This is what i have so far.

 [HttpPost]
    [Route("api/giftcardLogin")]
    public IHttpActionResult Login([FromBody] LoginRequest request)
    {

            try
            {
                FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(
                1, // Ticket version
                "SOMENAMEFROMEXTERNALSOURCE", // Username associated with ticket
                DateTime.Now, // Date/time issued
                DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(30), // Date/time to expire
                true, // "true" for a persistent user cookie
                "MEMBEREXTERNALROLE",// User-data, in this case the roles
                FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath);// Path cookie valid for

                string hash = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);
                 HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(
                    FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, // Name of auth cookie
                    hash); // Hashed ticket
                if (ticket.IsPersistent) cookie.Expires = ticket.Expiration;

                string[] roles = ticket.UserData.Split(',');

                HttpContext.Current.User  = new System.Security.Principal.GenericPrincipal(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity, roles);



                return Ok(ticket);

            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                return BadRequest(e.Message);
            }



}