How to use ServiceStack authentication correctly in ASP.Net MVC controller

Question

I\'m having problem with getting ServiceStack [Authentication] attribute to work in ASP.Net MVC4 controller, pages / action methods with the attribute keep redirecting Users

Answer 1

You can find how it could be done in the ServiceStack Use Cases repository. The following example is based on MVC4 but works perfectly for MVC3 either: CustomAuthenticationMvc.

Answer 2

After much fiddling around, apparently the way to hook ServiceStack authentication is to call the AuthService via:

try {
    authResponse = AuthService.Authenticate(new Auth{ UserName = model.UserName, Continue = returnUrl, Password = model.Password });
} catch (Exception ex) {
    // Cut for brevity...
}

and NOT authResponse = this.CreateRestClient().Post<AuthResponse>("/auth/credentials", model);!

Where AuthService is defined in the base controller as:

public AuthService AuthService
{
    get
    {
        var authService = ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints.AppHostBase.Instance.Container.Resolve<AuthService>();
        authService.RequestContext = new HttpRequestContext(
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ToRequest(),
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ToResponse(),
            null);

        return authService;
    }
}

Everything else (incl. session) works correctly now.