ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using the FormsAuthentication Class

The main application programming interface for interacting with Forms authentication is the FormsAuthentication class. This class supports the following properties:

• CookieDomain— Returns the domain associated with the authentication cookie.

• CookieMode— Returns the cookieless authentication mode. Possible values are AutoDetect, UseCookies, UseDeviceProfile, and UseUri.

• CookiesSupported— Returns True when a browser supports cookies and Forms authentication is configured to use cookies.

• DefaultUrl— Returns the URL of the page to which a user is redirected after being authenticated.

• EnableCrossAppRedirects— Returns True when an authentication ticket can be removed from a query string.

• FormsCookieName ...