ASP NET MVC What is the correct way to redirect to pages actions in MVC

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I am fairly new to MVC but not sure exactly which Redirect    replaces the standard redirect used in WebForms is the standard Response Redirect   For instance  I need to redirect to other pages in a couple of scenarios   WHen the user logs out  Forms signout in Action  I want to redirect to a login page  In a Controller or base Controller event e g  Initialize  I want to redirect to another page  AbsoluteRootUrl   Controller   Action   It seems that multiple redirects get called in some cases which causes errors  something to do with the fact a page is already being redirected  How can cancel the current request and just redirect  Update  The answer to this question  System Web Mvc Controller Initialize  indicates that Initialize should not be used and OnActionExecuting should be used  Any comments on why Initialize should not be used or why OnAuthorization is not a better option  More Info  This blog post  http   blog wekeroad com blog aspnet-mvc-securing-your-controller-actions   indicates that OnActionExecuting is useful for authentication  as indicated in the link above  I guess adding this to that event in the base Controller class is fine as every page runs an Action in MVC so shouldn t make much difference and having the ability to redirect should be easier  This does make sense  but it also seems to make sense to me that things could be done in an event before this event and makes we question what those events are for  Will be giving OnActionExecuting a go

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RedirectToAction  actionName    controllerName      It has other overloads as well  please check up   Also  If you are new and you are not using T4MVC  then I would recommend you to use it   It gives you intellisence for actions Controllers views etc  no more magic strings

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1  To redirect to the login page   from the login page  don t use the Redirect   methods  Use FormsAuthentication RedirectToLoginPage   and FormsAuthentication RedirectFromLoginPage      2  You should just use RedirectToAction  action    controller   in regular scenarios    You want to redirect in side the Initialize method  Why  I don t see why would you ever want to do this  and in most cases you should review your approach imo   If you want to do this for authentication this is DEFINITELY the wrong way  with very little chances foe an exception  Use the  Authorize  attribute on your controller or method instead     UPD  if you have some security checks in the Initialise method  and the user doesn t have access to this method  you can do a couple of things  a   Response StatusCode   403  Response End      This will send the user back to the login page  If you want to send him to a custom location  you can do something like this  cautios  pseudocode   Response Redirect Url Action  action    controller       No need to specify the full url  This should be enough  If you completely insist on the full url   Response Redirect new Uri Request Url  Url Action  action    controller    ToString

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1  When the user logs out  Forms signout in Action  I want to redirect to a login page   public ActionResult Logout           log out the user     return RedirectToAction  Login        2  In a Controller or base Controller event eg Initialze  I want to redirect to another page  AbsoluteRootUrl   Controller   Action   Why would you want to redirect from a controller init   the routing engine automatically handles requests that come in  if you mean you want to redirect from the index action on a controller simply do   public ActionResult Index         return RedirectToAction  whateverAction    whateverController

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