Forms Authentication in ASP.Net 2.0

[Nilesh_S_Gokhal]

Hi Gurus,

I need a little information about Forms Authentication cookie and how it is handle by the server.

I want to know specifically how this cookie is handled after I restart the web server and request a resources with a cookie generated prior to restart.

I may sound foolish, but I need to know this. Can anyone guide me on this or redirect me to some article.

Thanks in advance.

[mmetzger]

It's a cookie, so it's client side. Assuming that you've actually set the cookie to be persistent (the default is for in client memory) the server should handle it just like it would without restarting the server. The only caveat I can think of is if you change the machine key value in the web/machine.config files which is used for securing the cookie.

[Nilesh_S_Gokhal]

It's a cookie, so it's client side. Assuming that you've actually set the cookie to be persistent (the default is for in client memory) the server should handle it just like it would without restarting the server. The only caveat I can think of is if you change the machine key value in the web/machine.config files which is used for securing the cookie.

Thanks...