What is the difference between HttpContext.Current.Request.IsAuthenticated and HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated?

What is the difference between HttpContext.Current.Request.IsAuthenticated and HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated?

Which one would you use in which situation?

Answers:

Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post helpful (or not), leave a comment & I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Method 1

There’s absolutely no difference. Checkout HttpContext.Current.Request.IsAuthenticated implementation:

public bool IsAuthenticated
{
    get
    {
        return (((this._context.User != null) && 
                 (this._context.User.Identity != null)) &&
                 this._context.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated);
    }
}

All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0