Common Login page across multiple web applications on the same domain

[ngodugu]

Hi All,
Is there any way to use a common login page across multiple web
applications?

I have tried couple of things that were suggested on MSDN but they did
not work.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pconformsauthenticationacrossapplications.asp

This technique falters when the second web application is looking for a
session variable and does not find it. The cookie part works fine.

Just wanted to know if anybody had done this.

Thanks in advance.

Neelima

 

[ngodugu]

Hi All,
I thought I would share my solution to this issue.
At the suggestion of a friend I did the following:
Changed by web.config settings to the same as the once specified in the
link in my previous post.
Also, I changed the login functionality to store the userid in the
cookie.
I created a Base page, in the page load of the base page, I check for
session variables and if they are not there, I retrieve the cookie and
the userkey from it. I use the userkey to load the session variable
values from the DB.
I inherited the base page in all of my main pages and you need to the
following line in the page_load function of each page

base.Page_Load(sender,e);

Hope it helps somebody.

Thanks
Neelima