Hi,
I am integrating my organization's web site with an off the shelf discussion forum solution. I am using the .net membership db and I've been able to point the forum site, which is also .net, to my membership db and achieve single sign on for both sites. Both sites are in the same domain with a different sub domain. It is critical that our users be able to move between our existing site and the discussion forum seamlessly.
The issue has to do with an occasional cookie mismatch that occurs when the user types in the domain without prefacing it with "www" while logging into our existing site. In firefox and google chrome this results in the cookie being written as mysite.org rather than www.mysite.org. The forum site does not recognize the cookie unless it is in the www.mysite.org format.
In the authentication <forms> tag of webconfig I have the path set to "/" in both sites. I have tried hardcoding the ful ...
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