cookie problem

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

15 Dec 2005 9:19 PM

Steven M.

Greetings...

I need desperate help with my problem.

I guess the solution is related in some way with the cookies getting
lost in the authentication process working with some web servers.

Appreciate any help you could provide.

I've created an application that does the authentication process
using forms. I've succeed to install it in a lot of web servers and
it works perfect. But, and here is the problem, in some of the web
servers this is what happens:

Starting the application the user has to follow the authentication
process. If the user fails to enter the password, the server
communicates him that either the password or the user name is
incorrect. At this point, the process works fine. The problem starts
when the user follow the authentication process correctly (user name
and password are correct), after this, the system fails to continue to
the next page, the user is sent back to the authentication page (like
he was trying to violate the security using the URL).

This problem happens when a user is trying to do the authentication
process in a client machine; it doesn't happen if the user is in the
server machine.

I've done some research and these are the results:

As the application works fine in most of the servers I've installed
it, it shouldn't be an application problem.
As the application gives the user an answer when either the user name
or the password is incorrect, the server is responding correctly.
As the application works fine if the user is in the server machine,
installation or database problems are discarded.
I've been tracking the cookies and this is what happens: If the user
is working directly on the server machine, the system creates the
cookies and everything works fine. But, if the user is working on any
client machine the cookie never arrives.
The problem is not on the client machines as if I connect them to
another server, the cookie is created and the application works fine.
The user is redirected to the authentication page because the cookie
gets lost (Again: The client machines works fine connected to other
servers) and he loses his credentials.
Searching through the web I've found that there is a problem with the
server name when it has characters like "_", but this is not my
case. I've tried names like:
Server/MyApp/Authentication.aspx
192.168.1.100/MyApp/Authentication.aspx
OtherName/MyApp/Authenticacion.aspx
But none of them works.

I hope I've been clear enough with my explanation.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

PD: The application has been developed using C# in VS .NET.