登录表单身份验证之前Ajax调用不起作用

Question

I am using cookie based form authentication in my application and login in my application through jquery ajax call.when i apply Authorization tag in my web.config.my ajax function stop calling login action method in controller. The issue is that before login form is not authenticated and ajax call fail to call server action method.how can i enable ajax call before login. here is my web.config code.if i remove "authorization" tag from my web.config code works fine.

  <authorization>
  <deny users="?"/>
</authorization>

Answer 1

You will need to turn off authentication on your login action (ie AllowAnonymous):

   [AllowAnonymous]
    public ActionResult Login(string returnUrl)
    {
        ViewBag.ReturnUrl = returnUrl;
        return View();
    }