Request.AnonymousID in ApiController

Question

I'm using MVC 4 Web API and the Anonymous Identification Module to identify anonymous users for a shopping cart in my application. This is the value I've added to my web.config file:

<anonymousIdentification enabled="true" />

I can access Request.AnonymousID in a normal Controller but not an ApiController . How can I access this?

Answer 1

add the following using statement

using System.Web;

then use:

HttpContext.Current.Request.AnonymousID