I have some code below so that when a user calls a method in an mvc controller it does some checks to see if it is an Ajax call or not. If Ajax it returns a json response else it returns a url string (Security page). When I run in visual studio the code works perfectly so it recognises the call is an ajax call but on a production server variable "isAjax" is set to false. Is there any reason why it would work locally in visual (local iis) but not on a server?
var isAjax = (filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request["X-Requested-With"] == "XMLHttpRequest") ||
((filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Headers != null) &&
(filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Headers["X-Requested-With"] == "XMLHttpRequest"));
On the network tab in the browser it shows that it is being passed (image below)
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Answers
Instead of checking the headers you can check the current request at controller level.
AJAX calls will have a header named X-Requested-With, and the value will be XMLHttpRequest. So you can check like this:
Otherwise you can use the System.Web.MVC reference and use the function.