Authentication Users On BlogEngine.NET Via A Third Party Web Service And Other Customisations

Question

Goodday people,

I have a challenge with BlogEngine.NET

I have an entire database of users, far different from BlogEngine's DB. I am currently consuming a web service that authenticates said users in another application

I do have some other customization/extensions I'd like to do with BlogEngine.NET, like -

• Authenticating users via the web service rather than using the table from the BlogEngine DB.
• Inserting user name from the web service into the User table in BlogEngine DB.
• Assigning users from the web service user roles, and allowing them post.

I understand the login.aspx.cs has a method(LoginUser_OnAuthenticate()) that authenticates the user to see if the username and passwords match those in the data-store. The LoginUser_OnAuthenticate method in login.aspx.cs calls the AuthenticateUser method in Security.cs.

What I don't understand is where (what aspx file) does the Response.Redirect() method to direct the user to if the match is correct? What does context.Response.Redirect(returnUrl); return?

I'm sorry, I'm still new to C#. Just trying to wrap my head around this.

I don't know if anyone has worked on something like this and would like to be put through.

Regards,

Answer 1

Ok, so I fixed this months ago, writing a wrapper round the AuthenticateUser() method, that authenticates via the in-house API, then goes to the BlogEngine DB to see if that user exists. If the user exists, the user is redirected to the homepage. So in login.aspx.cs, I replaced Login_AuthenticateUser() with the wrapper I had written.