Cart is empty after Registration....

Sorry for this big monologue (that i would prefer in dialog). My problem will be resolved with the answer to this question:

how to autolog the customer after the AccountActivation ?

thanks in advance

I found the solution:

Just add

_authenticationService.SignIn(customer, false);

in CustomerController.cs:AccountActivation()

aboyer wrote:
this is more of a workaround than a real solution. i don't really want this behaviour in my shop. the empty shopping cart is confusing the hell out of my new customers. is no one else having this issue???

please can someone help? :)

I have found that forcing ssl for all pages resolved this issue for me.
The whole site will run in ssl so when someone goes to register or checkout they will already be in ssl session.

Go to Configurations>Settings> AllSettings (Advanced) and search for securitysettings.forcesslforallpages and set to true

version 4, force SSL enabled - Cart is still loses contents after user registers/signs in...anybody else have this issue?

ok, figured something out...if we remove the 'admin approval' requirement on new customer registrations, then it works as it should. Not sure why they would have coded it to kill the session if admin approval is required...assuming that is the intended procedure...