About Session or Cookies

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Hello,

hope everyone is doing fine.

I need help keeping my session alive in my MVC web application, until User logged out.

My web application should automatically redirect to the dashboard page always.

I tried cookies also (I have first created Session["UserId"] and then kept that Session in cookies), I can see cookies are created in browser, but still my web application is getting log out.

I have created cookies using :

HttpCookie hqloginCookie = new HttpCookie("hqLogin");

//Set the Cookie value.

hqloginCookie.Values["Name"] = Session["Name"].ToString();

hqloginCookie.Values["Email"] = Session["Email"].ToString();

hqloginCookie.Values["UserId"] = Session["UserId"].ToString();

hqloginCookie.Values["Password"] = Session["Password"].ToString();

hqloginCookie.Path = Request.ApplicationPath;

hqloginCookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(365);

Response.SetCookie(hqloginCookie);

Response.Cookies.Add(hqloginCookie);

Using Cookies on my dashboard page using :

HttpCookie cookie = HttpContext.Request.Cookies.Get("hqLogin");

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Laxmidhar Sahoo5y ago
hi
use
HttpResponseMessage
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/advanced/http-cookies
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48169402/how-to-get-and-set-cookies-in-web-api-2/64287615
Kiran Mohanty5y ago
Hi ,
You need to check for cookie value before executing any action. Here is a generic code.
You have to add Cookies with login details, something like this,

***** On login click***********

string username = session["name"];
string Password = session["password"];

HttpCookie mycookie = new HttpCookie("LoginDetail");
mycookie.Values("Username") = txtUsername.Text.Trim();
mycookie.Values("Password") = txtPassword.Text.Trim();
mycookie.Expires = System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(365);
Response.Cookies.Add(mycookie);

Response.Redirect("Home.aspx");

*********  On any other page load/ action load*********

//check if cookie exist then login page from
if ((Response.Cookies("LoginDetail") != null)) {
//do stuff
}
else
{
//redirect to login page
}
Make sure that cookie settings are enabled in your browser.
Sachin Singh5y ago
use form's authentication for Login , here is complete code
"Forms">
    "~/Home/Login">


[HttpGet]
        public ActionResult Login(string ReturnUrl)
        {
            ViewBag.ReturnUrl = ReturnUrl;
            return View();
        }
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Login(string UserName, string Password, bool RememberMe, string
       ReturnUrl)
        {

            if (UserName == "sachin" & Password == "sachin@7777") // do database check here
            {
                FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, username, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddMonths(12), true, username, FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath);
            string encrTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(authTicket);
            HttpCookie c = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encrTicket);
            Response.Cookies.Add(c);


                return Redirect(ReturnUrl);

            }

            return View("Login");
        }
//view
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Login";
      }

Login

"/Home/Login" method="post">
    User Name:@Html.TextBox("UserName")
    Password :@Html.Password("Password")
    Remember Me:@Html.CheckBox("RememberMe")
   @Html.Hidden("ReturnUrl", new { @value = ViewBag.ReturnUrl})

    "submit">Login