ASP.NET MVC: Restricting access using url

Question

The URL for the administration section of my website always starts with Admin/. Is it possible in ASP.NET MVC to restrict access to users by using this part of the

Answer 1

That will work but you then tie the authorisation to your current Routing model. The beauty of authorising the Actions is that it abstracts the functionality (which is, actually, what you want to control) from the url structure that you are currently using.

It also means that you can Unit Test this functionality.