Webapi 2 enable impersonation on certain controllers

Question

I have a webapi 2 application. I have enabled impersonating a specific user using the below web.config. Is it possible to impersonate this user only on certain controllers instead of the entire application. I know that there's a way to use pinvoke to impersonate a specific domain user in code, but I would rather not use it.

<system.web>
    <identity impersonate="true" userName="mydomain\myuser" password="mypassword"/>
</system.web>

I have tried to put my controller inside an area, but the web config inside the area just doesn't apply to the web api 2 controller

Answer 1

If you use Areas, you can accomplish this.

Create an Area and put your identity impersonate line in area's web.config.

See following for web.config inheritance.