quirks

ASP.NET MVC 3 has its quirkiness here and there. Sometimes it’s a lack of support for something, and other times it’s downright buggy. An issue I came across recently, is something to do with Windows Authentication. There’s a lot of resource on the web on how to run ASP.NET MVC with Windows Authentication. There’s even a project template, the Intranet site, which ships with MVC 3. It should be a no-brainer! The issue I came across, prevented ASP.NET from using Windows Authentication. Even though I had set authentication mode to Windows in Web.config: <authentication mode=”Windows” /> <authorization> <deny users=”?” /> </authorization> And disabled anonymous authentication on the website in IIS - it always redirected all requests to /Account/Login, as if it was using some sort of default Forms Authentication. This coursed a server error – the dreaded Yellow Screen of Death, since I … Continued