Nearing feature complete for driver auth

Web/Controllers/ControllerBase.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+using System;
 using System.Web.Mvc;
 using MileageTraker.Web.Attributes;
 using MileageTraker.Web.DAL;
+using MileageTraker.Web.Models;
+using MileageTraker.Web.Utility;
+using MileageTraker.Web.ViewModels.Account;
 
 namespace MileageTraker.Web.Controllers
 {
@@ -28,5 +32,45 @@ namespace MileageTraker.Web.Controllers
 
 			base.OnException(filterContext);
 		}
+
+		protected string GetCookieValue(string key)
+		{
+			return
+				HttpContext.Request.Cookies[key] != null
+					? HttpContext.Request.Cookies[key].Value
+					: null;
+		}
+
+		protected void SetCookieValue(string key, string value)
+		{
+			var cookies = HttpContext.Response.Cookies;
+			var httpCookie = cookies[key];
+			if (httpCookie == null) return;
+
+			httpCookie.Value = value;
+			httpCookie.Expires = DateTime.MaxValue;
+		}
+
+		protected string LinkForUrlAction(string urlAction)
+		{
+			return 
+				string.Format("{0}://{1}{2}", 
+				              Request.Url.Scheme, Request.Url.Authority, urlAction);
+		}
+
+		protected string ResetPassword(User user)
+		{
+			var passwordResetToken = Algorithms.GenerateToken();
+			var url = LinkForUrlAction(
+				Url.Action("NewPassword", "Account",
+				           new NewPasswordViewModel
+					           {
+						           UserId = user.UserId,
+						           PasswordResetToken = passwordResetToken
+					           }));
+			user.PasswordResetToken = passwordResetToken;
+			DataService.UpdateUser(user);
+			return url;
+		}
 	}
 }