ASP.NET MVC IAuthorizationFilter usage

In ASP.NET MVC, IAuthorizationFilter will run before any other filters and action methods. So is it appropriate to implement IAuthorizationFilter for some scenarios that some logic of checking and analysing the incoming HttpRequest needs to be executed before any other logic runs? Or IAuthorizationFilter should be used only for Authorization related logic, then what other ways should I take for this?

Its not good idea to use IAuthorizationFilter for any thing other than Authorization. You can just create a global filter with order so your filter can execute before any other actionfilters

public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
{
    filters.Add(new SpecialFilterAttribute(), 1);
    filters.Add(new LogFilter(), 2);
}

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