I was wondering if thre is a down side (if poissible at all) in usirelying pn Context object in a web farm environment. In the current application hosted on a single web server, a pretty standard techique is used inside of the Application_AuthenticateRequest handler of an HTTP module to recreate a cusom user object implementing IPricipal on each request and attach it to HttpContext.Current. What I have concerns about, will HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated still be true after an authentication ticked and cookie were issued on web server 1 and the next request comes to web server 2?