Setting the role in cookie authentication

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DamonJanis Posted: Mon, Jul 9 2007 8:25 AM

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How can the users role be set through the authentication cookie?

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Xander replied on Mon, Jul 9 2007 12:51 PM

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If you want the roles to be user-specific (different roles for different users) then the best way would be to write a CSModule that will read the roles from the cookie and add the user to the appropriate roles.  

 You can see an example for the beginnings of a CSModule here.

Hope this helps,

 
Xander
 

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DamonJanis replied on Wed, Jul 11 2007 8:20 AM

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Thanks, this got me going the right direction.

What I haven't been able to figure out or find in the docs is how to read a cookie from inside the CSModule. On a web page I would use Request.Cookies[...].Value to read cookie information but inside a CSModule what is available to get access to Community Server's HttpRequest object?

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Xander replied on Wed, Jul 11 2007 11:45 AM

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You can access the current request via System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request...

Hope this helps,

Xander