How do I use Target=_blank on a response.redirect?

Question

I do not necessarily have to use response.redirect, but that is what I had. I would like to open the selected link in a new window. How do I do that?

context.Response.Redirect(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["URL"] + ext );

Answer 1

You can't is the short answer. The browser is the only thing that can open up a new window.

What you can do is send a chunk of html down the response that has a link with your url as an href, target="_blank" and a chunk of javascript onload of the form that fakes a click. If this doesn't work then use a window.open(url);

response.write("<script>");
response.write("window.open('page.html','_blank')");
response.write("</script>"); 

Answer 2

You're trying to accomplish a client-side task from the server side, so you'll need to do a bit of hacking.

One option is sending back a page that's just a bit of JavaScript, which then will handle the redirect.

This isn't particularly clean, but what about:

Response.Write("<script>window.open('http://www.somesite.com/','_blank');</script>");