Adding basic authentication to ASP MVC action

Question

I have an ASP MVC app that uses it's own custom authentication mechanism. However there is only one Action in one controller that I need to secure using Basic Authentication.

The idea is when the URL for this particular action is hit, the browser pops up the basic authentication dialog and then I need to have the username and password IN the action itself.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This is the answer which works: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606991/asp-net-mvc-http-authentication-prompt/1607546#1607546