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Getting the email from external providers Google and Facebook during account association step in a default MVC5 app

PLEASE SEE UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST! The following works for me for Facebook: StartupAuth.cs: var facebookAuthenticationOptions = new FacebookAuthenticationOptions() { AppId = “x”, AppSecret = “y” }; facebookAuthenticationOptions.Scope.Add(“email”); app.UseFacebookAuthentication(facebookAuthenticationOptions); ExternalLoginCallback method: var externalIdentity = HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Authentication.GetExternalIdentityAsync(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie); var emailClaim = externalIdentity.Result.Claims.FirstOrDefault(c => c.Type == ClaimTypes.Email); var email = emailClaim.Value; And for Google: StartupAuth.cs app.UseGoogleAuthentication(); … Read more

aspnet identity invalid token on confirmation email

Most likely that the code in transit is modified by browser. Try doing UrlEncode on the token: var code = await userManager.GenerateEmailConfirmationTokenAsync(userId); code = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(code); Otherwise browser messes with the special symbols that can be present in the token.