Request.IsAuthenticated is always false

Question

Can you tell me why FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(user.Name, false); is not causing Request.IsAuthenticated to be true?

Here is my code

Answer 1

I had exactly same problem in my MVC4 Web Application. One more possible reason for this problem is below method in IdentityModels.cs file

public async Task GenerateUserIdentityAsync(UserManager manager)
    {
                            // Note the authenticationType must match the one defined in CookieAuthenticationOptions.AuthenticationType
                            var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
                            // Add custom user claims here
                   return userIdentity;
    }

Make sure DefaultAuthenticationTypes is ApplicationCookie

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