Issue with tilde (~) parsing in <asp:Login>

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  12 years ago

  by v7265

  vikas

  , India

  Joined 12 years ago

  I'll say from the outset that I am a complete ASP.Net Newbie.

  I have had a project management system developed for me in ASP.Net and C#, and I am trying to learn from/play with the code. Users are directed to a login page when they first enter the system, which is in the /login subfolder. After a user enters their username and password and presses the "Login" button, instead of going to /default.aspx, I am given a 404 error stating it can't find "/login/~/default.aspx".

  The error seems to be related to the following code:

  <asp:Login ID="cntrLogin" runat="server" PasswordRecoveryText="Forgot Password?"
                              PasswordRecoveryUrl="~/login/ForgotPass.aspx" CssClass="LoginSpace" Height="30px" OnAuthenticate="cntrLogin_Authenticate" TitleText=" " UserNameLabelText="User Name: " Width="348px">
                              <FailureTextStyle CssClass="LoginError" />
                              <TitleTextStyle CssClass="LoginTitle" />
                              <InstructionTextStyle CssClass="LoginLabel" />
                              <TextBoxStyle CssClass="LoginData" />
                              <LoginButtonStyle CssClass="LoginBtn" />
                              <ValidatorTextStyle CssClass="LoginError" />
                              <LabelStyle CssClass="LoginLabel" />
                              <HyperLinkStyle CssClass="LoginLink" />
                              <CheckBoxStyle CssClass="LoginCheckbox" />
                          </asp:Login>

  If I click on the "Forgot Password" URL it sends me to the correct page, so it doesn't seem to be an overall ASP.Net problem with parsing tildes - but I could be wrong?
  

  The relevant code in login.master:

   <form id="frmi" action="~/default.aspx" runat="server" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;">
      <Part:Header ID="Part_head" runat="server" IncludePath="../" />

  The resulting HTML source becomes: <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="~/default.aspx" onsubmit="BLOCKED SCRIPTreturn WebForm_OnSubmit();" id="aspnetForm" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;">

  I have href="/~design/style.css"  just three lines above and it correctly results in href="../design/newstyle.css". It is a bizarre problem

  The system works as expected on our webserver which runs SBS2003 and IIS6 and MSSQL 2005. I am running VS2008 Express SP1, MSSQL 2008 Express Edition and .Net 3.5 SP1 on Vista Ultimate SP1 with all updates installed and the same issue occurs whether I run it via VS2008 Development Server or IIS7.

  Your help is greatly appreciated because I have spent nearly a week searching trying to find a solution.

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  12 years ago

  by myselfhemant

  Hemant Kaushal

  Indore, India

  Joined 15 years ago

  If your default page is at root then u should use "~/default.aspx"  not "/login/~/default.aspx"

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  12 years ago

  by v7265

  vikas

  , India

  Joined 12 years ago
  the code IS "~/default.aspx" - it results in "/login/~/default.aspx" for some reason?
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