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Requests for my css, js, image files are being served through the ASP.NET pipeline. I thought IIS by default avoided this, but I see the requests on my Application_AuthenticateRequest breakpoint and there’s no need to actually authenticate those requests. I’ve seen conflicting approaches to change this behavior – What is the best way to do this?
I’m taking a guess here and suspect that you have the following setting configured in your
web.configfile:This means that every request, including those for static content is hitting the pipeline.
Change this setting to:
This is assuming your application is running under ASP.NET 4.0 and MVC3.
For this to work you need to install KB980368 (requires a reboot) or Windows 2008R2 SP1 (which includes this hotfix). The reason for this is explained in this excellent article: