Access cookies from ASP .NET MVC 3 _Layout View

Question

I'm using a default _Layout.cshtml for my layout.

Now, I would like to access the Request object, so I could read the Cookies collection, so I could see if user is logged in. How can I achieve that, since the _Layout view doesn't have a Controller? I thought about creating a model for the _Layout view, but the model can't access Request as well. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Use @HttpContext.Current.Request