I'm trying implement an openId login with Google account together with ASP.NET MVC 2 framework and DotNetOpenAuth library.
The following code is used to render login button:
<% using (Html.BeginForm("LogOnPostAssertion", "Authentication", FormMethod.Post, new { target = "_top" }))
{ %>
<%= Html.AntiForgeryToken() %>
<%= Html.Hidden("ReturnUrl", "/", new { id = "ReturnUrl" }) %>
<%= Html.Hidden("openid_openidAuthData") %>
<%= Html.OpenIdSelector(this.Page, new SelectorButton[] {
new SelectorProviderButton("https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id", AppHelper.ImageUrl("login/google.gif")),
new SelectorOpenIdButton(Url.Content("~/Content/google.gif")) }) %>
<% } %>
</div>
</div>
<% var options = new OpenIdSelector();
options.DownloadYahooUILibrary = false;
%>
<%= Html.OpenIdSelectorScripts(this.Page, options, null) %>
This code works fine until I want to use AJAX. I don't want to reload the whole page after user was logged in. If I change Html.BeginForm with Ajax.BeginForm the authentication stops working. "LogOnPostAssertion" action is not called.
On my site the login form is opened in popup modal dialog. I want to verify user, close the dialog and refresh user status area using javascript. As example the process should be similar to the one as at http://shopping.com
Could it be because when you switched it to AJAX that you didn't preserve the POST HTTP method?
When I tried replacing the Html.BeginForm line with this one, it worked:
<% using (Ajax.BeginForm("LogOnPostAssertion", "Auth", new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "POST" })) { %>
By setting a breakpoint on the LogOnPostAssertion action, I saw that it did work. But the action itself would need to be adjusted to not send redirects but rather send whatever update script is appropriate.