I need help with creating a authentication cookie for my site (or advice on a better way to do this).
I have a table in my database for my users (we'll call it tblAuthentication). It has a username and a password field. Now I can write the authentication method that will check values in a login form with values in my tblAuthentication table and return a boolean which will let the user in or not, but I'm not sure what to do from there. What I need help with is creating the cookie and then checking for that cookie on every page of my form.
I'm using a masterpage for 99% of my pages, so can I write the logic there to check for the cookie and load the page or redirect to login? Is this even the best way to go? I read a little about the global.asax and from what I understand its events fire off with every page request, not sure if thats right or not though.
I don't want to use the built in FormsAuthentication because I ...
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