ASP.NET MVC FormsAuthentication with ServiceStack

gistfile1.cs

// Client code follows...
CookieContainer cookieContainer = new CookierContainer(); 
if (Login("user", "password")) 
{ 
    // Now we can use the ServiceStack classes to call the /api section 
    var client = new JsonServiceClient("http://localhost:8080/api"); 
    client.CookieContainer = cookieContainer; 
    var request = new Sync {LastSync = DateTime.Now}; 
    var response = client.Send<Sync>(request); 
} 

private static bool Login(string username, string password)
{
  var client = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:8080/Account/Logon");
  client.Method = "POST";
  client.UserAgent = "ServiceStack";
  client.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
  client.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
			
  string poststring = "username=" + username + "&password=" + password;
  byte[] bytedata = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(poststring);
  client.ContentLength = bytedata.Length;
  using (var requestStream = client.GetRequestStream())
  {
    requestStream.Write(bytedata, 0, bytedata.Length);
  }

  using (var response = client.GetResponse())
  {
    using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
    {
      using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8))
      {
        string s = reader.ReadToEnd();
	
	// When running under MonoTouch, the Cookies were coming back with $Version=1 
	// which would break when sending the CookieContainer back to the server for the next call		
	foreach (Cookie c in cookieContainer.GetCookies(new Uri("http://localhost:8080")))
	{
	  c.Version = 0;
	}
						
        return !s.Contains("The user name or password provided is incorrect");
      }
    }
  }
}