accessing HttpContext.Request in a controller's constructor

Question

I\'m following this ASP.NET MVC tutorial from Microsoft:

My code is slightly different, where I\'m trying to access HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated

Answer 1

The solution of this problem is to create an override method of Initialize by passing RequestContext object.

public class ChartsController : Controller
{
     bool isAuthed = false;
    protected override void Initialize(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext)
    {
        base.Initialize(requestContext);

        if (requestContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
        {
          isAuthed =true;
        }
    }
}