PostAuthenticateRequest called on no user

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I have a situation where I go to access my app running on IIS on Win2003. In
Global.asax I have Application_PostAuthenticateRequest and that is called
when HttpContext.Current.User is null.

Subsequent to that I get prompted to enter my uname/password by IE so it
does make sense that there is no CurrentUser yet. My question is, how can
Application_PostAuthenticateRequest be called if there is no authenticated
user yet?

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[Dominick Baier]

we are talking about a pipeline. This event is called on every request.

If you code should only run when there is an authenticated user - do

if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{}

 

[David Thielen]

I thought if it was authenticated the pipeline was ended and all that was
called was EndRequest???

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[Dominick Baier]

nope.

there is a bunch of stuff going on after authentication - e.g. role management,
caching etc...

all events are called every time (besides when you are not authorized - then
the request is ended in AuthorizeRequest)

 

[David Thielen]

Oh right - if an authenticed user is ok then it must keep going. And it's
AuthorizeRequest that needs to end it.

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