FormsAuthenticationConfiguration.Path Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Configuration

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the cookie path.

public:
 property System::String ^ Path { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("path", DefaultValue="/")]
[System.Configuration.StringValidator(MinLength=1)]
public string Path { get; set; }

[<System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("path", DefaultValue="/")>]
[<System.Configuration.StringValidator(MinLength=1)>]
member this.Path : string with get, set

Public Property Path As String

Property Value

String

The path of the HTTP cookie to use for authentication. The default value is a slash (/), which represents the Web-application root.

Attributes

ConfigurationPropertyAttribute StringValidatorAttribute

Examples

The following code example shows how to access the Path property. Refer to the code example in the FormsAuthenticationConfiguration class topic to learn how to get the section.

// Get the current Path.
string currentPath = formsAuthentication.Path;
// Set the Path property.
formsAuthentication.Path = "newPath";

' Get the current Path.
Dim currentPath As String = formsAuthentication.Path
' Set the Path property.
formsAuthentication.Path = "newPath"

Remarks

The Path property indicates where the authentication cookie resides and is transmitted along with the authentication cookie itself.

See also

• Protection