Unable To Retrieve RSAuthenticationHeader Cookie

I am trying to setup custom forms authentication in Reporting Services.

I have followed the UFAIRS sample. I have the site running, reporting services running, and I have a page where I can input my login information.

I can debug the code- and I get to this section of code:


Protected Overrides Function GetWebResponse(ByVal request As WebRequest) As WebResponse


Dim response As WebResponse = MyBase.GetWebResponse(request)

Dim cookieName As String = response.Headers("RSAuthenticationHeader")

' If the response contains an auth header, store the cookie

If Not (cookieName Is Nothing) Then

Utilities.CustomAuthCookieName = cookieName

Dim webResponse As HttpWebResponse = CType(response, HttpWebResponse)

Dim authCookie As Cookie = webResponse.Cookies(cookieName)

' If the auth cookie is null, throw an exception

If authCookie Is Nothing Then

Throw New Exception("Authorization ticket not received by LogonUser")

End If

' otherwise save it for this request

Me.AuthCookie = authCookie

' and send it to the client

Utilities.RelayCookieToClient(authCookie)

End If

Return response


Notice the line: Dim cookieName As String = response.Headers("RSAuthenticationHeader")

Basically the cookie name is null after that, and therefore it processes no further and I never get a cookie and I can never authenticate. Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?


Also, this is on a test box, so I don't have SSL capabilities. Unless there is a way to "emulate" SSL, I pretty much don't know if this works without SSL, or if this is causing the problem. We have environments that use SSL, but I do not have access to it at the moment- I will have to do additional work to get that up and running.

Thanks in advance,
Robert