Forms Authentication: Invalid value for 'encryptedTicket' paramete

[Bill13]

I used the standard forms authentication sample from msdn to set up my
site. When I run on my dev machine, everything works fine. When i move it to
the test server, i receive an error: Invalid value for 'encryptedTicket'
parameter. I've seen questions about this but not any answers. Anyone have
any idea what causes this or suggestions on what to try? Thanks.

Bill

 

[Bill13]

Found the problem. So, for anyone interested, it was caused by passing
a null in the userdata portion of the ticket. For some reason, my db query to
retrieve the roles is returning a null. So I put a test to check if null and
send an empty string and the invalid value problem was solved. Now if i could
only figure out why I'm getting null for roles...