
#Steam auth ticket has expired code#
We would strongly suggest you generate your own private keys if you choose to hard code the element within your web.config and don't use the keys shown in this example. The value for the validationKey and decryptionKey attributes must be a minimum of 40 characters and a maximum of 128 characters long. The recommended key length is 128 hexadecimal characters. This will look like so.Īdd your element just below the element as shown below.įor a complete references of all attributes supported within the element please refer to To resolve the above error message open your InstantForum or InstantKB web.config file within NotePad or similar text editor. NET framework will automatically generate the encryption and description keys for each application within IIS. If you don't explicitly specify a element by default the. This section can be declared at the machine, site, and application levels, but not at the subdirectory level.
#Steam auth ticket has expired verification#
The element configures keys to use for encryption and decryption of forms authentication cookie data and view state data, and for verification of out-of-process session state identification. To resolve this we would suggest you generate your own unique private keys and hard code these into your InstantForum or InstantKB web.config as discussed below. This would suggest the private keys used for encryption and decryption are expiring resulting in a invalid authentication cookie and the above exception message.

Whilst the exact cause of this error is not officially documented by Microsoft we've found adding a hard coded element into your InstantForum or InstantKB web.config resolves this problem. Forms authentication failed for the request. After installing InstantForum or InstantKB you may see the following error message from time to time within the server event viewer.
