jQuery ajax in DotNetNuke preserving user authentication

I want to use jQuery's ajax functionality in a DotNetNuke module I'm developing.

I want the ajax call to be authenticated via DNN's membership functionality.

I want the ajax开发者_如何学运维 response as json.

How can I do this?

I've looked at IWeb and IWebCF -- it's not clear to me from much Googleing and scanning the forums whether these modules would allow me to create a web service that would accept a simple post request and return json (seems like they want to do it the ASP.NET AJAX way with a generated proxy, I'd prefer to just use jQuery's AJAX call functionality).

Seems you can't create a simple webmethod in a DNN module (since they are developed as User Controls (.ascx)).

I could deploy an .asmx file with module, but that won't leverage DNN's authentication system.

Ideas?

I'm currently developing against DNN 4.9.5

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We just did this, but we ended up having to copy a bunch of code from the MembershipModule class to set the current user from their cookies (since that module exits out when the path doesn't end with a known file extensions).

If you're able to get a web service working via IWeb/IWebCF, you should be able to call that without the proxy (though it might still automatically generate the proxy), the same way that you would call any other ASP.NET Web Service.

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Brian, that's exactly what we're looking for as well.

The iWeb system seems more suited to .Net development patterns and not jQuery/JavaScript heavy development styles.

Would you be willing to share the generic parts of your code? Maybe even on CodePlex?

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I was actually able to solve this problem with the help of the iweblite project on Codeplex I am using it together with an asmx webservice on the server side and jQuery/Ajax on the client side. I am creating a series of posts at my blog to show how it works. It will still be a week or two before I have time to explain that part of it. I had to make some modifications to the iweblite project for it to work so I sent a message to the project owner asking if I could fork it or take over but I never got a response.