How to simulate Server.Transfer in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

In ASP.NET MVC you can return a redirect ActionResult quite easily :

 return RedirectToAction(\"Index\");

 or

 return RedirectToRoute(new { controller = \"         


        

Answer 1

Edit: Updated to be compatible with ASP.NET MVC 3

Provided you are using IIS7 the following modification seems to work for ASP.NET MVC 3. Thanks to @nitin and @andy for pointing out the original code didn't work.

Edit 4/11/2011: TempData breaks with Server.TransferRequest as of MVC 3 RTM

Modified the code below to throw an exception - but no other solution at this time.

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Here's my modification based upon Markus's modifed version of Stan's original post. I added an additional constructor to take a Route Value dictionary - and renamed it MVCTransferResult to avoid confusion that it might just be a redirect.

I can now do the following for a redirect:

return new MVCTransferResult(new {controller = "home", action = "something" });

My modified class :

public class MVCTransferResult : RedirectResult
{
    public MVCTransferResult(string url)
        : base(url)
    {
    }

    public MVCTransferResult(object routeValues):base(GetRouteURL(routeValues))
    {
    }

    private static string GetRouteURL(object routeValues)
    {
        UrlHelper url = new UrlHelper(new RequestContext(new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current), new RouteData()), RouteTable.Routes);
        return url.RouteUrl(routeValues);
    }

    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
    {
        var httpContext = HttpContext.Current;

        // ASP.NET MVC 3.0
        if (context.Controller.TempData != null && 
            context.Controller.TempData.Count() > 0)
        {
            throw new ApplicationException("TempData won't work with Server.TransferRequest!");
        }

        httpContext.Server.TransferRequest(Url, true); // change to false to pass query string parameters if you have already processed them

        // ASP.NET MVC 2.0
        //httpContext.RewritePath(Url, false);
        //IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
        //httpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext.Current);
    }
}