How do I execute a controller action from an HttpModule in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I\'ve got the following IHttpModule and I\'m trying to figure out how to execute an action from a controller for a given absolute or relative URL.

Answer 1

Something along the lines should do the job:

public void OnError(HttpContextBase context)
{
    context.ClearError();
    context.Response.StatusCode = 404;

    var rd = new RouteData();
    rd.Values["controller"] = "error";
    rd.Values["action"] = "notfound";
    IController controller = new ErrorController();
    var rc = new RequestContext(context, rd);
    controller.Execute(rc);
}

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Answer 2

I think you need to use HttpContext.Current.RewritePath

This lets you change the path for the file you want to use. It's what the default.aspx created in MVC 2 projects does.

I've used it in much the same way you are, to do error handling without a 302 but can't get to my code right now. I'll post some code on Monday.

Answer 3

Hi use this to let the framework execute the code for that path using the routing and all the components :

    // MVC 3 running on IIS 7+
    if (HttpRuntime.UsingIntegratedPipeline)
    {
        context.Server.TransferRequest(url, true);
    }
    else
    {
        // Pre MVC 3
        context.RewritePath(url, false);

        IHttpHandler httpHandler = new MvcHttpHandler();
        httpHandler.ProcessRequest(httpContext);
    }

And ideally the request processing is completer at this point. If this is not the case and if the request is further processed along the asp.net http pipeline, then use this to stop the request at this point, and tell asp.net that we're done with this request :

HttpApplication app = (HttpApplication) context.Application;
app.CompleteRequest();;

Im not sure if the context has the Application (im not near VS now) but use it to stop the request in this module if needed.

Answer 4

You can using HttpContext:

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("/Error/NotFound");