More control on ASP.Net MVC's Authorize; to keep AJAX requests AJAXy

Question

I have some action methods behind an Authorize like:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post), Authorize]
public ActionResult Create(int siteId, Comment comment) {
         


        

Answer 1

Instead of using the authorize attribute, I've been doing something like the following.

public ActionResult SomeCall(string someData)
{
    if (Request.IsAjaxRequest() == false)
    {
        // TODO: do the intended thing.
    }
    else
    {
        // This should only work with AJAX requests, so redirect
        // the user to an appropriate location.
        return RedirectToAction("Action", "Controller", new { id = ?? });
    }
}