Form Authentication from webmethod

Question

I am trying to set a cookie from withing a WebMethod like this

                FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, user.UserName,
                DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(60), user.RememberMe, user.Groups);

            //Encrypt the ticket.
            String encryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(authTicket);

            //Create a cookie, and then add the encrypted ticket to the cookie as data.
            HttpCookie authCookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, encryptedTicket);

            if (true == user.RememberMe)
                authCookie.Expires = authTicket.Expiration;

            //Add the cookie to the outgoing cookies collection.
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(authCookie);

Now I want to redirect the user, after the user logged in, to a different page. I know I can't do this from the WebMethod. I return true to the jQuery Ajax call and then redirect the user using this

window.location.href = "/Pages/NonIssued";

But the redirection fails and takes keeps me in the login page, How can I Make the user logged in.

This is what I have in my web.config

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="/Pages/LoginPage.aspx" name="adAuthCookie" timeout="30" slidingExpiration="true" defaultUrl="/Pages/NonIssued.aspx" path="/">
  </forms>
</authentication>
<authorization>
  <!--<allow roles="SDI\asfsadf aered 765" />
  <deny roles="SDI\SRD-Epac SQL Admins" />-->
  <deny users="?" />
  <allow users="*" />
</authorization>

try with slidingexpiration =false and one more thing you can do is check if cookie is getting saved or not using dev tools (press F12) — Dirty Developer, Dec 12 '16 at 22:43
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649308.aspx#paght000007_formsauthenticationtickets http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7450245/why-is-asp-net-formsauthentication-cookie-not-authenticating-user this may help you! — Dirty Developer, Dec 12 '16 at 23:02
@DirtyDeveloper I found the cookie by using firefox dev tools. The value is empty!. Don't know what to do! — Baso, Dec 13 '16 at 12:58
Even me too. looking at your code it seems perfect! have you visited the link I provided? — Dirty Developer, Dec 13 '16 at 23:27
I tried to set it directly like this FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(user.UserName, false); and it worked I am not sure why the other one is not working! — Baso, Dec 14 '16 at 16:58
Strange, isn't it ? well , you can post the answer. may be it can be helpful to someone. — Dirty Developer, Dec 15 '16 at 05:35
@DirtyDeveloper I don't consider what I did to be the correct answer as it didn't explain why the code in the question isn't working. — Baso, Dec 16 '16 at 19:36

Form Authentication from webmethod

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