.NET Mvc app with MS Azure Authentication refresh

Francesco Ancona 1 Reputation point
2020-06-16T08:34:59.207+00:00

've integrated the Azure authentication in an MVC application via Owin libraries. 

HttpContext.Current.GetOwinContext().Authentication.Challenge(
new AuthenticationProperties { RedirectUri = baseurl + "Login/Index", AllowRefresh = true },
OpenIdConnectAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationType);

After this, i faced a problem with the Azure session expiration after an hour. To solve this, i implemented a call (for test purposes every 45 minutes) to the Challenge method, like this: 

HttpContext.ApplicationInstance.Context.GetOwinContext().Authentication.Challenge(
                new AuthenticationProperties { RedirectUri = MvcApplication.Authentication.AdfsAzure.ADFSUrl + "Reserved/Main/VoidAction/", AllowRefresh = true, IsPersistent = true },
                OpenIdConnectAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationType);

The call ended succesfully but, after this, the Session cookie for the .NET mvc application (with name .ASPXAUTH_ARCHIFLOW_CURRENT) changed and the instance Session lost. Have you any idea to solve this? Or is there a different way to implement this token refresh? To give a complete view of the environment, i've removed the tag in the application web.config.

Many thanks at all!

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  1. Leon Laude 85,646 Reputation points
    2020-06-16T12:15:23.583+00:00

    .NET MVC is currently not supported in the Q&A forums, the supported products are listed over here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products (more to be added later on).

    You can ask the experts in the dedicated .NET MVC forum over here:
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