I have a system with a two-stage login.
Stage one is a Company Login which identifies the Company using my system. Stage two is a Staff Login where a member of staff belonging to the above company logs in.
In both stage an option is offered to save certain login details (Location/Company but not password)
A user should be able, if they wish, to set the Company Login Cookie, but not the Staff Cookie, there is no need to set a Staff Cookie without a Company Cookie, although it doesn't really matter if they do!
Stage one login, amongst database checks etc does this:
If SaveCookie Then
Dim loginCookie As New HttpCookie("LogInCompany")
loginCookie.Values("database") = Database
loginCookie.Values("savedKey") = SavedKey
loginCookie.Values("samCompanyId") = CompanyId
loginCookie.Values("samCompanyName") = Common.htmlDecode(CompanyName)
loginCookie.Expires = Date.Now.AddDays(7)
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(loginCookie)
End If
Then stage two does this:
If SaveCookie Then
Dim loginCookie As New HttpCookie("LogInStaff")
loginCookie.Values("locationId") = locationID
loginCookie.Expires = Date.Now.AddDays(7)
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies.Add(loginCookie)
End If
Obviously they are entirely separate functions, so I don't think the variable naming being the same is the issue.
What happens is:
- Company Login successful > Company Cookie is Saved, User proceeds to
- User Login User Login > User Cookie is Saved, BUT the Company Cookie is deleted.
This is using Chrome, I haven't checked other browsers but Chrome is the most important to me.
I know that this is definitely what is happening as I have checked in the Chrome Console, the Cookies are added and removed as per description above.
Can someone help point out where I am going wrong here?
EDIT - Nothing wrong with this code!
Argh... after a day of messing about with this, it turns out that the Cookie was being cleared by an unexpected, and caught, error in a different, but related section of code! This question can be closed if required, or left ...?