SetProperty Method of AuthManager Object Removes ProfileTicket on URL (300526)

SYMPTOMS

If you use the SetProperty method of the AuthManager object to set a property in the profile ticket and make the ticket URL-based, clients are not recognized when they hit the next page as a guest. This problem does not occur if you do not set the property.

CAUSE

The use of the SetProperty method is not documented correctly. When you use SetProperty, the property is set on the ticket, and this ticket is kept in memory. The ticket is issued to the client only on a subsequent call to the SetProfileTicket or SetAuthTicket methods (depending on the type of ticket that you use in SetProperty) for tickets that are issued as a cookie. For a ticket that is issued on a URL, the ticket is issued to the client only on a subsequent call to the GetUrl method.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

297216 INFO: How to Obtain the Latest Commerce Server 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date       Time   Version      Size    File name     Platform
   -------------------------------------------------------------
   06/04/2001 18:01  4.0.2052.0   98,576  Mscsauth.dll  x86

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Service Pack 2.