Azure Cloud Service Losing Session if URL doesn't contain WWW

Question

My Azure cloud service app has users logged in with session data. If they click on a link internally that doesn't have a preceding www, then the session data is not applied. If they go back and click on a link that does have a preceding www, the session data works as expected. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

TIA

Answer 1

Sounds like your session cookies are not tuned to the wildcard of the domain. Can this be a problem? Check the forms section of your web.config if it contains domain attribute and if it doesn't, set it.

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="/Account/LogOn" timeout="43200" domain="yourdomain.com"/>
</authentication>