Suppose that both FirstModule
and SecondModule
handle the Application_BeginRequest
event. Will it execute in the order defined in the web.config?
<httpModules>
<add type="MyApp.FirstModule, MyApp" name="FirstModule"/>
<add type="MyApp.SecondModule, MyApp" name="SecondModule"/>
<add type="OtherApp.OtherModule, OtherApp" name="OtherModule"/>
</httpModules>
Are there other ways that the order can be specified?
According to this forum post, HttpModules are executed in the order in which they were registered. This makes sense to me, because otherwise the <clear>
and <remove>
directives would also not work as expected, e.g. when used like this:
<httpModules>
<clear/>
<add... />
</httpModules>
I don't think you can guarantee or specify an order that httpmodules will run in. If SecondModule is dependent on FirstModule it may be better to just combine their functionality into 1 httpmodule.