HttpContext is a class from .NET Framework which provides information about an HTTP request.
HttpContext is a class from .NET Framework which provides information about an HTTP request.
Questions tagged [httpcontext]
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Setting HttpContext.Current.Session in a unit test
I have a web service I am trying to unit test. In the service it pulls several values from the HttpContext like so:
m_password = (string)HttpContext.Current.Session["CustomerId"];
m_userID = (string)HttpContext.Current.Session["CustomerUrl"];
in…
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Mock HttpContext.Current in Test Init Method
I'm trying to add unit testing to an ASP.NET MVC application I have built. In my unit tests I use the following code:
[TestMethod]
public void IndexAction_Should_Return_View() {
var controller = new MembershipController();
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How do I get an HttpContext object from HttpContextBase in ASP.NET MVC 1?
I'm working with some WebForms/MVC-agnostic tools, and I need to get an instance of HttpContext given a reference to an HttpContextBase object. I can't use HttpContext.Current because I need this to work asynchronously as well (HttpContext.Current…
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How do I mock the HttpContext in ASP.NET MVC using Moq?
[TestMethod]
public void Home_Message_Display_Unknown_User_when_coockie_does_not_exist()
{
var context = new Mock();
var request = new Mock();
context
.Setup(c => c.Request)
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How to access the HttpServerUtility.MapPath method in a Thread or Timer?
I use a System.Timers.Timer in my Asp.Net application and I need to use the HttpServerUtility.MapPath method which seems to be only available via HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath.
The problem is that HttpContext.Current is null when the…
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Get current System.Web.UI.Page from HttpContext?
This is actually a two part question. First,does the HttpContext.Current correspond to the current System.UI.Page object?
And the second question, which is probably related to the first, is why can't I use the following to see if the current page…
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How to get working path of a wcf application?
I want to get the working folder of a WCF application. How can I get it?
If I try
HttpContext.Current.Request.MapPath(HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath)
I get a null reference exception (the Http.Current object is null).
What I meant…
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Using HttpContext.Current in WebApi is dangerous because of async
My question is a bit related to this: WebApi equivalent for HttpContext.Items with Dependency Injection.
We want to inject a class using HttpContext.Current in WebApi area using Ninject.
My concern is, this could be very dangerous, as in WebApi…
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accessing HttpContext.Request in a controller's constructor
I'm following this ASP.NET MVC tutorial from Microsoft:
My code is slightly different, where I'm trying to access HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated in the controller's constructor.
namespace SCE.Controllers.Application
{
public abstract class…
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Why is HttpContext.Current null?
I have a value that I use in all the application; I set this in application_start
void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Dictionary> Panels = new Dictionary>();
List…
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Access HttpContext.Current from different threads
I have a C# ASP.NET application which starts about 25 different threads running some methods in a class called SiteCrawler.cs.
In HttpContext.Current.Session I want to save the result of the search made by the user and present it to the user when…
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Request.UserHostAddress issue with return result "::1"
I am trying to get client ip address using
HttpContext.Request.UserHostAddress;
but it returns ::1.
How to solve this?
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Get application path without using httpcontext. (asp.net)
How to do it?
I don't want to use this:
HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath
Is there a similar function that I can call without requiring a httpcontext?
For example if a start a thread doing some stuff i cant use the httpcontext, but i still need to…
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How does HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name know which usernames exist?
This is not necessarily an issue, I am just curious as to how it works. I have a method:
public static bool UserIsAuthenticated()
{
bool isAuthed = false;
try
{
if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name != null)
{
…
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HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name is Empty
I have a Silverlight application (using MVC) and when i'm building in visual studio, using Visual Studio Development center, there's no problem, the HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name has a Value
But when i'm using the same project with IIS 7.5…
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