Why does Rotativa always generate my login page? Why is it slow?

Question

I was using this Rotativa 1.6.4 code example to generate a PDF from a page in my .NET MVC 5 app.

public ActionResult PrintIndex()
{
    var a = new ActionAsP         


        

Answer 1

In my case using UrlAsPdf() along with just adding the cookie that I needed, had resolved the issue. Following is the sample code that I have used.

    var report = new UrlAsPdf(url);

    Dictionary cookieCollection = new Dictionary();
    foreach (var key in Request.Cookies.AllKeys)
    {
       if (Crypto.Hash("_user").Equals(key))
       {
          cookieCollection.Add(key, Request.Cookies.Get(key).Value);
          break;
       }
    }
    report.Cookies = cookieCollection;
    report.FormsAuthenticationCookieName = FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName;