Windows Live Authentication

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5/10/2010 2:27:52 AM
David Allen
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Windows Live Authentication

Hello,

Windows Live authentication used to work fine and I have made no changes to it yet it has stopped working correctly.  When registered users login using Windows Live, the site is not logging them in.  So, when you go to the login page it shows the Sign out link next to Windows Live ID so that obviously believes the user is logged in but to my site, the user id definitely not logged in. 

I have checked the Windows Live security settings and it is still enabled with the correct ID and key.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

 

Thanks.

5/10/2010 6:45:09 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Windows Live Authentication

Hi David,

That is strange, I am able to see the issue on your site but I cannot reproduce it on my local machine nor on demo.mojoportal.com. Reviewing the source code log I see a minor change on April 8 that cannot be an issue and no other changes in a number of months.

Are you seeing anything in your mojoportal log that gives any clue?

I would try generating a new app id and key

Hope it helps,

Joe

5/10/2010 7:14:28 AM
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Re: Windows Live Authentication

I took your advice and checked the Live ID application settings and the return URL wasn't directing to the correct page.  I have sorted that out and Live ID logins now seem to work :-)

 

However, new Windows Live ID registrations are still not receiving the confirmation email to confirm their account.  Other mails from the site are being sent fine.  Any thoughts?

 

Thanks.

5/10/2010 7:21:20 AM
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Re: Windows Live Authentication

Hi David,

Most features use the smtp settings from appSettings, but some things like this confirmation and password recovery emails use the <system.net><mailSettings section from Web.config. So most likely you don't have the correct settings there.

Hope it helps,

Joe

5/10/2010 7:55:41 AM
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Re: Windows Live Authentication

I had already checked the System.Net config and knew that was correct.  It's turned out that my ISPs mail server has been temporarily blacklisted so hotmail are blocking emails from my domain !

They've advised me this due to the fact that it's shared and someone has abused it and that it should be removed from the blacklist within 48 hours.  Still now thinking that I should maybe invest in a my own dedicated mail server.

Thanks again Joe, particularly as none of my issues were with mojoPortal in the end.

David

5/10/2010 8:17:58 AM
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Re: Windows Live Authentication

Hi David,

Glad you got it sorted!

Many thanks for the beers!

Cheers,

Joe

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