Breaking the Dotnet request pipeline inside of a filter

Just a brief extension of the last post…

What if you want to ‘break’ or ‘short-circuit’ a request so it never gets to the a action in the controller?

Just set the Result property of the ActionExecutingContext inside the filter method and Dotnet will short-circuit the pipeline and return a response immediately to the caller.

context.Result = new StatusCodeResult((int)HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);

There you go ;)