Problem:
I have a webforms app where every page inherits from BasePage.cs I also have another class AuthenticatedBasePage.cs which inherits from BasePage.cs
BasePage.cs has some code which finds out if a Forms Authentication cookie is set, and if so, sets a IsAuthenticated boolean flag and a MyAppUser object (only has properties such as name, age, gendery) which means every page on the site can see if the user viewing the page is logged in or not, and if so, read the values of MyAppUser.
AuthenticatedBasePage has an additional feature where if anyone tries to browse to a page inheriting from this class are not authenticated, they are redirected to the login page with a 'returnurl' querystring variable set.
I would to have a similar setup in my MVC2 app. I've done a fair bit of reading that says I shouldn't reference HttpContext in my BaseController.cs (which all my controllers inherit from) as that means I can't unit test it. My first question is, how can I make the IsAuthenticated and MyAppUser objects available to every page? Secondly, how do I create pages which only authenticated users can access, and if they are not authenticated, they get redirected to the login page with the returnurl querystring variable set?
Many thanks, A.
P.S. I'm not using the MembershipSchema, I'm only using the FormsAuthentication.SetCookie method.