ASP.NET login does not redirect just logged user p

Question

I have ASP.NET application, which is perfectly works on development environment. Login works on Firefox, IE and Chrome. Requests in Firefox in development env looks like:

POST Request:

POST /MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyServiceName%2F HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fMyServiceName%2f
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 171
Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=bQmz8xMlE-u9e0iKr3vtXpCDqo8FpQkcgPzN3cdw2xp73M8SoV_WTwFG5IIY1JEQlHJ-ZHd8h5z_f75FO4nkEcGRhP6e9HBE64rjsGCEVV81
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

And Response:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /MyServiceName/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
Set-Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=7D3D9E88072745F5AD2B5FCE038F0A794EF6590F9877A65255A63F124CE4FC3EE0309A03F3ACE9C7C5C39E51050F4009A32558D0FE94F673D7B8D5FEA6E6E2E22BEFF862255B50DFC9B6AC2637C8F04918ECCAD0DD63B29CFCD8B4E9BA4DD898C35C7F7CA8E3BB33DA943CD4A45D80F4F24A1E9EF01829B7258C9195FC977B96; expires=Fri, 28-Sep-2018 09:05:12 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:35:12 GMT
Content-Length: 128

But when I deploy my service into real server, login in with any browser except Chrome does not work. Requests in Firefox in real server:

Remote host POST Request:

POST /MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyServiceName HTTP/1.1
Host: remhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fMyServiceName
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 171
Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=-JG3IFQhCVjOuL_SIf7QD0ot7Fc_Fy9lb8Lii_VkLzGKGWswkOPfG-ZQtxijlFYhDO7jAMRiRcatHWcdlBRw7RXVzkdu5864rWiLNWGHc7KSUwgtwA-W_lJHVm-EmKW9v1zEgESa0oQKZ37i9mHC6g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=nAHU2cD63KJZIjm3a8LHUYlZpQ9YChmou1E1pvMfI5xmQl2iqgbJ9x9iCuTH0lDlmAqoqFd5_bnPS3FsUVkNYwYRcLt-WJozs0kWt_jn0fM1
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

And Response:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /MyServiceName
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Set-Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=BD46865424CAA946E4AF046436F14C10841E64596BDF9125E721000DA2056C5613D914985ED65A1F3ADF65A322D93156559D2F4B02DFB2F3D4C8CCC5837C90CE29825E578FBA2B5E2B1F6E06DC259FC60210C1DA31A44F861476D49A6FFE318474FEE116867B58898357335914B1E8AD65DFEF8223DABDBB07D7ECBAB990D976; expires=Fri, 28-Sep-2018 07:53:36 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:23:36 GMT
Content-Length: 130

GET Request on Firefox:

GET /MyServiceName HTTP/1.1
Host: remhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fMyServiceName
Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=-JG3IFQhCVjOuL_SIf7QD0ot7Fc_Fy9lb8Lii_VkLzGKGWswkOPfG-ZQtxijlFYhDO7jAMRiRcatHWcdlBRw7RXVzkdu5864rWiLNWGHc7KSUwgtwA-W_lJHVm-EmKW9v1zEgESa0oQKZ37i9mHC6g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=nAHU2cD63KJZIjm3a8LHUYlZpQ9YChmou1E1pvMfI5xmQl2iqgbJ9x9iCuTH0lDlmAqoqFd5_bnPS3FsUVkNYwYRcLt-WJozs0kWt_jn0fM1
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

GET Response on Firefox:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fMyServiceName
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:46:51 GMT
Content-Length: 170

Google Chrome for remote server: POST Login:

curl 'http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Cache-Control: max-age=0' -H 'Origin: http://remhost' -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H 'Save-Data: on' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyServiceName%2F' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H 'Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7' -H 'Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=UcVwtESdo2tT8Uy1opbJpVpDdpBOTYmNXRi0dyW7ubyd529sme8yJ23vQQX4aQlM02NVTMoBowsD4Uzbpydnq_rgd8I2n-G96I5JQ9xgM2E3cnLVys9RNJtbjLwInu1XKdH2VbkqYIaxXP4mWYT-2g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=RANEaw7GedA6EGEajt9O9rDx3k0SPUuWm-gG-nY_GzlpJyr_odsUU3wN6BorEbAz87_yswgZDS07ihDiuUUZxIAfOFdQA2Ohn7HmrlAz1L41' --data '__RequestVerificationToken=eUURMtLNSgIi4SgyID5CJZchnns9yTjK039Z1FFcA7TAQjjZ1wvblnKeseCe7UJu6zclcA3NgZ2rBZnABMGn54maEDhfe5W-kk-mjGeIGIk1&UserName=user&Password=password' --compressed

Request header:

POST /MyServiceName/Account/Login HTTP/1.1
Host: remhost
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 171
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Origin: http://remhost
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Save-Data: on
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyServiceName%2F
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=UcVwtESdo2tT8Uy1opbJpVpDdpBOTYmNXRi0dyW7ubyd529sme8yJ23vQQX4aQlM02NVTMoBowsD4Uzbpydnq_rgd8I2n-G96I5JQ9xgM2E3cnLVys9RNJtbjLwInu1XKdH2VbkqYIaxXP4mWYT-2g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=RANEaw7GedA6EGEajt9O9rDx3k0SPUuWm-gG-nY_GzlpJyr_odsUU3wN6BorEbAz87_yswgZDS07ihDiuUUZxIAfOFdQA2Ohn7HmrlAz1L41

Response header:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /MyServiceName/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Set-Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=33BF43D6803B985EB87EEF8AC1301B63F7A8406ADC73ACED15D3F5737AF883F49D3F64AB979E234A550D554C55B570DAF23AC8FF5A91D8517D70C2E6149341A2DD2F35CFC7B5487141A28099A927C5D971A4C954A2669A8A3E6500E0B762402A366850B5A6F1330740ADB958E43F0044D577AD4E70D517B682AFCA55F9A7482E; expires=Fri, 28-Sep-2018 07:30:09 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:00:09 GMT
Content-Length: 131

GET MyServiceName/:

curl "http://remhost/MyServiceName/" -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Cache-Control: max-age=0" -H "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1" -H "Save-Data: on" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36" -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8" -H "Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=^%^2FMyServiceName^%^2F" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" -H "Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7" -H "Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=UcVwtESdo2tT8Uy1opbJpVpDdpBOTYmNXRi0dyW7ubyd529sme8yJ23vQQX4aQlM02NVTMoBowsD4Uzbpydnq_rgd8I2n-G96I5JQ9xgM2E3cnLVys9RNJtbjLwInu1XKdH2VbkqYIaxXP4mWYT-2g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=RANEaw7GedA6EGEajt9O9rDx3k0SPUuWm-gG-nY_GzlpJyr_odsUU3wN6BorEbAz87_yswgZDS07ihDiuUUZxIAfOFdQA2Ohn7HmrlAz1L41; .ASPXAUTH=33BF43D6803B985EB87EEF8AC1301B63F7A8406ADC73ACED15D3F5737AF883F49D3F64AB979E234A550D554C55B570DAF23AC8FF5A91D8517D70C2E6149341A2DD2F35CFC7B5487141A28099A927C5D971A4C954A2669A8A3E6500E0B762402A366850B5A6F1330740ADB958E43F0044D577AD4E70D517B682AFCA55F9A7482E" --compressed

Request header:

GET /MyServiceName/ HTTP/1.1
Host: remhost
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Save-Data: on
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://remhost/MyServiceName/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FMyServiceName%2F
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
Cookie: __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydA2=UcVwtESdo2tT8Uy1opbJpVpDdpBOTYmNXRi0dyW7ubyd529sme8yJ23vQQX4aQlM02NVTMoBowsD4Uzbpydnq_rgd8I2n-G96I5JQ9xgM2E3cnLVys9RNJtbjLwInu1XKdH2VbkqYIaxXP4mWYT-2g2; __RequestVerificationToken_L00yU3VwcG9ydF92Mg2=RANEaw7GedA6EGEajt9O9rDx3k0SPUuWm-gG-nY_GzlpJyr_odsUU3wN6BorEbAz87_yswgZDS07ihDiuUUZxIAfOFdQA2Ohn7HmrlAz1L41; .ASPXAUTH=33BF43D6803B985EB87EEF8AC1301B63F7A8406ADC73ACED15D3F5737AF883F49D3F64AB979E234A550D554C55B570DAF23AC8FF5A91D8517D70C2E6149341A2DD2F35CFC7B5487141A28099A927C5D971A4C954A2669A8A3E6500E0B762402A366850B5A6F1330740ADB958E43F0044D577AD4E70D517B682AFCA55F9A7482E

Response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:00:09 GMT
Content-Length: 4619

Response:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<!-- Here is my html when user logged in -->
</html>

The problem seem to be in second GET. On development env it returns status 200 OK, and on real server 302 Found.

Authentication is done thru ASP.NET Simple Membership.

Login POST action:

[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Login(LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
{
    string errorMsg = "The user name or password provided is incorrect.";
    if (Roles.IsUserInRole(model.UserName, "Disabled"))
    {
        errorMsg = "Your account has been disabled. Contact administrator for more info.";
    }
    else if (ModelState.IsValid && WebSecurity.Login(model.UserName, model.Password, true))//persistCookie: false))
    {
        accountService.AddLogin(model.UserName);
        return RedirectToLocal(returnUrl);
    }

    // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
    ModelState.AddModelError("", errorMsg);
    return View(model);
}

private ActionResult RedirectToLocal(string returnUrl)
{
    if (Url.IsLocalUrl(returnUrl))
    {
        return Redirect(returnUrl);
    }
    else
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
    }
}

I have checked login status from server database. The user login was done correctly, and user status is logged in, though Firefox still displays login page as if user is not logged. I think the problem is in redirection somewhere.

Any ideas why? The web.config file is same except database connection settings on both systems. it's same ISS 7.5 on both computers. So what else might be the reason?

One more interesting thing. From the same remote computer where service is run Firefox also works OK. So My problem for remote sessions only.

UPDATE: Seems I found the root cause here. But I have no idea yet how to fix it in scope of my code

If the third does not have time to finish before redirect, it might be so, that only remote sessions fail. Agree?

In web.config I have:

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" cookieless="UseCookies" timeout="30" slidingExpiration="true" />
    </authentication>

Answer 1

From you web config <authentication mode="Forms">, I can deduct you are using forms authentication.

Try these two things:

1. Set up default url in forms authentication setting like :

   <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" cookieless="UseCookies" timeout="30" slidingExpiration="true" defaultUrl="~/Home/Index"/> </authentication>

2. For redirecting after authentication, instead of using return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home"); or return Redirect(returnUrl);

use FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage method like:

if (Membership.ValidateUser(userName, password) == true)
{
   FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userName, false);
   FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(userName, false);
}

It Redirects an authenticated user back to the originally requested URL or the default set in the config.

For more information & override of this method refer :

Microsoft docs