title: Best way of changing authentication mechanism with ASP.NET MVC
body: <p>I need to read, generate and keep updated an authentication cookie that is different from formsauthentication one.</p>
  
  <p>I saw many options like using <code>IHttpHandlers</code>, <code>IHttpModules</code>, custom Authorization filters, etc.</p>
  
  <p>How would you deal with it?</p>