What a thoroughly enjoyable post title, and it actually means something. It refers to a repeating redirection issue I encountered when
playing with Single Sign-On Cookie Authentication the other evening, so I thought I'd share the experience, knowing from CS Forums that others have encountered this as well.
Single Sign-On in Community Server is so sweet, integrating CS user authentication with existing authentication systems using Windows Authentication, ASP.NET Forms, Custom Cookies, Passport, and coming, Microsoft CardSpace. With Single Sign-On configured, users are automatically created in CS if they hadn't previously existed and there is no need to login to CS when authenticated in the existing system.
The redirection issue occurred when CS was trying to create a new user from the account information I was passing to it in the parent app's custom cookie. I didn't know what to think of it at first until I scrolled across to view the complete url. Those crafty CS Developers gave me the clue I needed by sticking the error at the end of the URL, as you can see below: Duplicate Email Address.
Then I heard it. "Use the force, Luke."
[tags: Community Server, Single Sign-On]