How do I specify a return url for a link to the login form?

Question

Simple enough, it would seem, but it turns out not to be - mainly due to the fact that the View can\'t possibly know which way through Model and Controller you got there. Regard

Answer 1

You can use Page.Request.Url to get the route that resulted in the currently rendered view.

Though that's more of a cosmetic detail, you might want to unify the requests that came through the '/' and '/default.aspx' routes and always return to the '/' route. I have a helper property in my master page that does exactly that.

    protected Uri RouteUrl
    {
        get
        {
            if (Page.Request.Url.AbsolutePath.StartsWith("/default.aspx", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                return new Uri(Request.Url, new Uri(Response.ApplyAppPathModifier("~/")));
            }

            return Page.Request.Url;
        }
    }