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How do I access HttpContext in Server-side Blazor?

June 12, 2023 by Tarik

Add the following to Blazor.Web.App.Startup.cs: services.AddHttpContextAccessor(); You also need this in <component-name>.cshtml @using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http @inject IHttpContextAccessor httpContextAccessor Note: At the time when this answer was written, accessing the HttpContext was done as described above. Since then, Blazor has been under rapid development, and has fundamentally changed. It is definitely deprecated the usage described above, but … Read more

HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host what it returns?

May 21, 2023 by Tarik

Yes, as long as the url you type into the browser www.someshopping.com and you aren’t using url rewriting then string currentURL = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host; will return www.someshopping.com Note the difference between a local debugging environment and a production environment

How does HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name know which usernames exist?

May 2, 2023 by Tarik

For windows authentication select your project. Press F4 Disable “Anonymous Authentication” and enable “Windows Authentication”

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name is Empty

May 1, 2023 by Tarik

I struggled with this problem the past few days. I suggest reading Scott Guthrie’s blog post Recipe: Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web application For me the problem was that although I had Windows Authentication enabled in IIS and I had <authentication mode=”Windows” /> in the <system.web> section of web.config, I was not … Read more

Get application path without using httpcontext. (asp.net)

April 26, 2023 by Tarik

Use the HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath property.

Request.UserHostAddress issue with return result “::1”

April 20, 2023 by Tarik

::1 is for localhost, Maybe this might be useful.

Access HttpContext.Current from different threads

April 8, 2023 by Tarik

In my application there are a lot of code that uses HttpContext.Current and I can not modify that code. worker.DoWork() from sample below uses that code. And I had to run it in separate thread. I came to the following solution: HttpContext ctx = HttpContext.Current; Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(() => { HttpContext.Current = … Read more

Why is HttpContext.Current null?

March 20, 2023 by Tarik

Clearly HttpContext.Current is not null only if you access it in a thread that handles incoming requests. That’s why it works “when i use this code in another class of a page”. It won’t work in the scheduling related class because relevant code is not executed on a valid thread, but a background thread, which … Read more

accessing HttpContext.Request in a controller’s constructor

March 6, 2023 by Tarik

instead of putting your HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated in Controller level you should put it in Controller Base class that will be inherited in all of your controller with an override method of OnActionExecuting() method. In your Controller base you should have public class BaseController : Controller { protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext ctx) { base.OnActionExecuting(ctx); ViewData[“IsAuthenticated”] = HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated; … Read more

Using HttpContext.Current in WebApi is dangerous because of async

February 28, 2023 by Tarik

HttpContext.Current gets the current context by Thread (I looked into the implementation directly). It would be more correct to say that HttpContext is applied to a thread; or a thread “enters” the HttpContext. Using HttpContext.Current inside of async Task is not possible, because it can run on another Thread. Not at all; the default behavior … Read more