Question

I would like to leverage the IIdentity.AuthenticationType property in a custom FormsAuthentication scenario in order to set my own values. Using the out-of-the-box FormsAuthentication, the AuthenticationType of the IIdentity associated with the HttpContext is set to “Forms”.

Could anyone verify if there is any logic in the core Asp.Net or Asp.Net MVC Frameworks that have functionality dependent upon the HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.AuthenticationType == "Forms"?

Answer 1

Using Reflector, I analyzed all “Used By” dependencies of IIdentity.AuthenticationType and FormsIdentity.AuthenticationType and none of the core framework has any logic that is conditional to the AuthenticationType value.