So what is happening is that I have a condition within my override of the HandleUnauthorizedRequest method in my custom authorize attribute. Up to this point, I've been throwing a 403 which gets picked up and redirects to a custom error page. Well now, that's not really what I want. What I actually want is to show the same login page but add a message to the validation summary "You do not have access to this resource.", that way it's a bit more user friendly. It'll indicate that your creds were good, but you don't belong here.
I thought something like this would work:
protected override void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
// passed authentication, failed authorization
if (filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
filterContext.Controller.ViewData.ModelState.AddModelError("", "Not Authorized");
return;
}
base.HandleUnauthorizedRequest(filterContext);
}
But this isn't working. What's happening is that the login page simply reloads. So this makes me feel like I'm close, but I need that model error to show up.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: It would seem that the Controller that I'm adding an error to here is actually controller of whichever action had the attribute that led to here. I need to somehow add the error to the login controller. Not sure if that's even possible.