Change HtmlForm action in C# ASP.NET 3.5

Question

I have a form as

When accessing in C# code-behind via

Answer 1

There is a class that I found in a KB article that helps achieve this, however, the article has been deleted it seems (originally here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/23033/Change-your-ASP-NET-Form-s-Action-attribute-with-R).

What follows is the class mentioned in that article. Basically if you use the following class and call the static SetFormAction(string url) method on it, you'll be able to set the attribute.

using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Web;

/// 
/// The purpose of this class is to easily modify the form "action" of a given asp.net page.
/// To modify the action, call the following code in the code-behind of your page (or, better, your MasterPage):
/// Copied (and modified) from http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ASP_Net_Form_Action_Attr.aspx
/// 
public class FormActionModifier : Stream
{
  private const string FORM_REGEX = "(]*>)";
  private Stream _sink;
  private long _position;
  string _url;
  public FormActionModifier(Stream sink, string url)
  {
    _sink = sink;
    _url = string.Format("$1{0}$3", url);
  }

  public override bool CanRead
  {
    get { return true; }
  }

  public override bool CanSeek
  {
    get { return true; }
  }

  public override bool CanWrite
  {
    get { return true; }
  }

  public override long Length
  {
    get { return 0; }
  }

  public override long Position
  {
    get { return _position; }
    set { _position = value; }
  }

  public override long Seek(long offset, System.IO.SeekOrigin direction)
  {
    return _sink.Seek(offset, direction);
  }

  public override void SetLength(long length)
  {
    _sink.SetLength(length);
  }

  public override void Close()
  {
    _sink.Close();
  }

  public override void Flush()
  {
    _sink.Flush();
  }

  public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
  {
    return _sink.Read(buffer, offset, count);
  }

  public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
  {
    string s = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, offset, count);
    Regex reg = new Regex(FORM_REGEX, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
    Match m = reg.Match(s);
    if (m.Success)
    {
      string form = reg.Replace(m.Value, _url);
      int iform = m.Index;
      int lform = m.Length;
      s = string.Concat(s.Substring(0, iform), form, s.Substring(iform + lform));
    }
    byte[] yaz = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s);
    _sink.Write(yaz, 0, yaz.Length);
  }

  /// 
  /// Sets the Form Action to the url specified
  /// 
  public static void SetFormAction(string url)
  {
    if (HttpContext.Current != null)
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Filter = new FormActionModifier(HttpContext.Current.Response.Filter, url);
  } // SetFormAction()
} // class