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Joe Payne2  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, October 6, 2020 10:05:04 AM(UTC)
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I'm trying to find the best way to force an affiliate value on only the shopper-side pages. If no affiliate is detected, redirect to a landing page.

I thought global.asax Begin_Request() was a good place to work but it's not going as planned.

Any suggestions?
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Naveed Ashraf  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, October 7, 2020 7:59:15 AM(UTC)
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Global.asax Begin_Request() seems a good place to handle any affiliate related processing. Please explain what issues you are facing with it?


You can check for an affiliate indicator in query string as under:

Code:
// look for an affiliate indicator in the querystring
Store store = AbleContext.Current.Store;
Affiliate affiliate = null;
int affiliateId = AlwaysConvert.ToInt(context.Request.QueryString[store.Settings.AffiliateParameterName]);
if (affiliateId > 0)
   affiliate = AbleContext.Container.Resolve<IAffiliateRepository>().Load(affiliateId);




Please keep in mind that the affiliate related processing can only be done once user instance is initialized. So, you should place the following check around any such code:
Code:

if (AbleContext.Current.User != null)
{

// any affiliate related processing.

}


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Joe Payne2  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:05:09 AM(UTC)
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Once I detect that I need to redirect to a no-affiliate page, I ran into a too-many-redirects problem. Since I was using BeginRequest(), it fires both for the initial request and the redirected page. So it just kept redirectly.

I tried using a session variable to toggle a flag I could test for at the beginning of PageRequest(), but I don't think session variables are available consistently in BeginRequest()

I did find an alternate solution in StackOverflow that seems to be working so far. The User context seems populated too at this point, so that concern is handled I think.

First time I've ever seen this method used in Global.asax lol

Code:

        protected void Application_AcquireRequestState(Object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.Session != null)
            {
                // don't redirect for admin users
                if (!AbleContext.Current.User.IsAdmin)
                {
                    // don't redirect admin pages
                    string origPath = Request.Path.ToLowerInvariant();
                    if (!origPath.Contains("/admin/"))
                    {

                        // only redirect if no affiliate assigned
                        if (AbleContext.Current.User.Affiliate == null)
                        {
                            bool redirected = false;
                            var beingredirected = HttpContext.Current.Session["beingredirected"];
                            if (beingredirected != null)
                            {
                                redirected = Boolean.Parse(beingredirected.ToString());
                            }

                            if (!redirected)
                            {
                                if (Request.HttpMethod == "GET")
                                {
                                    HttpContext.Current.Session["beingredirected"] = "true";
                                    Response.Redirect("~/No-Affiliate");
                                }
                                else if (Request.HttpMethod == "POST")
                                {
                                }
                            }

                        }

                    }
                }

                HttpContext.Current.Session["beingredirected"] = "false";
            }
        }
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Naveed Ashraf  
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:47:35 AM(UTC)
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Hi Joe,

Instead using a session variable to toggle a flag, it seems that you should just add a new check to exclude the "/No-Affiliate" page from the redirect processing.

something like:

Code:
if (origPath.Contains("/no-affiliate")) return;

Edited by user Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:48:12 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

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Joe Payne2 on 10/7/2020(UTC)
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