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I'm working on this project that currently has the follow method:

 [HttpPost]
 public ActionResult Service(string identifier)

This function is currently being used by a webpage form

 <form method="POST" action="/Connector/Service">
 <input type="hidden" id="identifier" name="identifier" value="@TempData["Identifier"]"/>

So Service is used when the user clicks on a button that submits the form on the webpage. The user is taken to this page from another action. I have to implement a feature where sometimes instead of taking the user to the webpage, the user goes directly to the Service method from the action.

I found this thread when searching: ASP.NET MVC: RedirectToAction with parameters to POST Action

But it seems like that is bad design and returning RedirectToAction with Service actually did not work for me.

return RedirectToAction("Service", new {identifier})

Upon more search it seems like I actually cannot make a post request from my controller. Asp.NET MVC : redirect to another controller with POST Action

Any ideas on what I could do here? I am fairly new to ASP.NET and have no idea what to do at this point. All help is appreciated, thanks.

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  • I agree it is bad design. "where sometimes instead of taking the user to the webpage" - What is sometimes? That's the missing piece here Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 20:09
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    the way you call redirect to action is sending a GET request. But your method is marked as POST only Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 20:27
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    stackoverflow.com/questions/129335/… you should read the accepted answer and see how @Jasonbunting does Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 20:46
  • @MarkC. The webpage is a terms and conditions page. The user gets taken to the service from the terms and conditions page; I'm trying to have it so if the user already accepted the terms it'll take them directly to the service instead of the webpage. Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 22:36
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    hey you can call the function like a normal one, like this ` Service(value)` Commented Dec 16, 2016 at 2:52

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So turns out I could just call the function directly by doing 

Service(identifier)

I kept thinking I had to use RedirectToAction so that didn't even cross my mind.

Thanks Sherlock for the answer!

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The tag [post] is used only when a form is submited by the view itself, if your page redirect to a controler function from another view than the one your in, you have two option:

  1. Use the [get] tag, you will probably have more luck with this tag, although i don't know exactly how it work (this might be edited)

  2. Use the tagless function with parameters, if you rediret from another view to a function with a parameter, like public ActionResult Service(string identifier) that has no tag, you will automatically reach this function.

    if the parameter haven't been specified, it will simply be NULL.

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For #2, if I take away the Post tag will the view still be able to submit it?
@SWWilliams No, if you remove the POST you cannot submit data unless you change your form method to a GET. GET is used to retrieve remote data while POST is used to insert/update remote data.
Is it possible to allow the function to handle both POST and GET requests then?
No.. you can always make a separate function and call that function in post AND get

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