Redirect to external URI from ASP.NET MVC controller

asp.net-mvc url redirect
user135498 picture user135498 · Oct 11, 2009 · Viewed 205.8k times · Source

I'm trying to redirect to external url from an action method but can't get it to work. Can anybody shed some light on my error?

public void ID(string id)
    {
        string url = string.Empty;
        switch (id)
        {
            case "DB2FCB11-579F-4DA2-A68C-A6495B9BAAB5":

                url = "http://www.somesite.com";
                break;
        }
        Response.Redirect(url, true);
    }

Thanks, Chris

Answer

Yuriy Faktorovich picture Yuriy Faktorovich · Oct 11, 2009

If you're talking about ASP.NET MVC then you should have a controller method that returns the following:

return Redirect("http://www.google.com");

Otherwise we need more info on the error you're getting in the redirect. I'd step through to make sure the url isn't empty.

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