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2/13/2012 10:49 AM
 

Hi All,

I'm trying to get the information about the current user within a call to a ashx file within a module but it would appear according to the httpcontext the user is no logged in - when the user is logged in.

I'm currently using DNN 6.0.1 - is this normal behaviour? Do I need to change something in order to get information about the current logged in user?

Thanks

 
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2/13/2012 11:27 AM
 
The HTTPContext is attached to the browser, is your module calling the ASHX from code behind or client side?

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2/13/2012 11:30 AM
 
It's a post (uploading a file) being made by an jQuery AJAX call using the uploadify plugin.
So Client Side.
 
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2/13/2012 2:10 PM
 
Seems it's a bug between asp.net and flash. As uploadify uses a flash object to upload this is where the problem arises, cookies can't be accessed and therefore the authenticated user is lost.

I'm trying to find a work around now...
 
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2/14/2012 10:01 AM
 

OK so the problem was due to uploadify using flash to upload an flash not passing back the needed asp.net cookies to the server so we know how the user is. This is easily corrected by building an iHttpModule and passing back some extra form values via Uploadify.

So Uploadify (in this case v3 and assuming the user is logged in) add:

'postData': { AUTHID: '<%=Request.Cookies(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName).Value %>', ASPSESSID: '<%=Session.SessionID %>' },

And For the Module, here's the code:

public class FlashCookieBugHandlerModule : IHttpModule
    {
        public void Dispose()
        {
            // clean-up code here.
        }


        public void Init(HttpApplication application)
        {
            application.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(OnBeginRequest);
        }


        private void OnBeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var httpApplication = (HttpApplication)sender;


            /* we guess at this point session is not already retrieved by application so we recreate cookie with the session id... */
            try
            {
                string session_param_name = "ASPSESSID";
                string session_cookie_name = "ASP.NET_SessionId";
                if (httpApplication.Request.Form[session_param_name] != null)
                {
                    UpdateCookie(httpApplication, session_cookie_name, httpApplication.Request.Form[session_param_name]);
                }
                else if (httpApplication.Request.QueryString[session_param_name] != null)
                {
                    UpdateCookie(httpApplication, session_cookie_name, httpApplication.Request.QueryString[session_param_name]);
                }
            }
            catch
            {
            }


            try
            {
                string auth_param_name = "AUTHID";
                string auth_cookie_name = FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName;


                if (httpApplication.Request.Form[auth_param_name] != null)
                {
                    UpdateCookie(httpApplication, auth_cookie_name, httpApplication.Request.Form[auth_param_name]);
                }
                else if (httpApplication.Request.QueryString[auth_param_name] != null)
                {
                    UpdateCookie(httpApplication, auth_cookie_name, httpApplication.Request.QueryString[auth_param_name]);
                }
            }
            catch
            {
            }
        }


        private void UpdateCookie(HttpApplication application, string cookie_name, string cookie_value)
        {
            var httpApplication = (HttpApplication)application;


            HttpCookie cookie = httpApplication.Request.Cookies.Get(cookie_name);
            if (null == cookie)
            {
                cookie = new HttpCookie(cookie_name);
            }
            cookie.Value = cookie_value;
            httpApplication.Request.Cookies.Set(cookie);
        }


    }

 
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