The required anti-forgery cookie “__RequestVerificationToken” is not present

Question

As I have deployed my newly created Asp.Net MVC web application to the server, I am facing the subject error, upon submitting a sign-up form. It is working fine in my local environment.

In my controller's action method, I have set the attribute to validate the token as shown below:

[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<ActionResult> Register(RegisterViewModel model)
{
    ////
}

And in my view, I have set as:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Register", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "form-horizontal", role = "form" }))
    {
         @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    }
 ////
)

One more thing is that I have enabled SSL on my project properties. I have also added <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true" requireSSL="true"/> in my web.config file.

While inspecting, I can see the hidden element <input name="__RequestVerificationToken" type="hidden" value="blaa blaa>", but i cannot see any cookie present there.

After hours of troubleshooting, I am still unable to find a solution to this problem. I am always getting error The required anti-forgery cookie "__RequestVerificationToken" is not present.

How to get rid of this?

Muhammad Ovais Muhammad Ovais · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-30T06:15:04

I myself has find the answer to this question. In my case, as I have set SSL to true, I need to have a security certificate. So, I purchased and configured the certificate on my hosted site and the error has gone.

The required anti-forgery cookie “__RequestVerificationToken” is not present

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