OWIN ClaimsIdentity not working in IE11

Asked Mar 15 '16 at 14:56

Active Mar 15 '16 at 15:10

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After Signing in using OWIN authentication, the identity's 'IsAuthenticated' is always false in IE11. It works just fine in Chrome though, any ideas ?

I also reloaded the page to see if secondary request worked, and it does not. I do see the cookie though in IE's dev tool.

//Setup authentication
ClaimsIdentity identity = new ClaimsIdentity(new[] {
    new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, userName),
    new Claim(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier, webUser.User_ID.ToString())
}, "ApplicationCookie");    
request.GetOwinContext().Authentication.SignIn(identity);

//Check authentication
ClaimsIdentity identity = request.GetOwinContext().Authentication.User.Identity as ClaimsIdentity;         

if (!identity.IsAuthenticated) return null; // In IE11, 'IsAuthenticated' is always false and the identity is not a valid  claimsIdentity

Here is my Startup code if it helps:

app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions
         {
            AuthenticationType = "ApplicationCookie",            
            LoginPath = new PathString("/Auth/"),
            CookieDomain = "localhost",
            CookieName = "MyCookie"
         });

edited Mar 15 '16 at 15:10

asked Mar 15 '16 at 14:56

Andrew Gale

Can you see the cookie in the request context? – Mister Epic Mar 15 '16 at 14:59
Request.Cookies.Count is 0 immediately after calling SignIn in IE11. In Chrome, the count is 1 – Andrew Gale Mar 15 '16 at 15:04
I added the Startup code if that helps diagnose – Andrew Gale Mar 15 '16 at 15:10
Are you opening a pop-up? – Mister Epic Mar 15 '16 at 15:10
Do you mean a windows authentication dialog, or a javascript new window? No in both cases. – Andrew Gale Mar 15 '16 at 16:24
Do you have an underscore in your domain or machine name? – Mister Epic Mar 15 '16 at 16:56
No underscore in domain or machine name. – Andrew Gale Mar 15 '16 at 17:07
Figured it out - localhost isn't valid domain. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18739984/owin-cookie-authentication-set-cookie-not-saving-in-browser – Andrew Gale Mar 15 '16 at 21:12

OWIN ClaimsIdentity not working in IE11

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