how to redirect to external url from c# controller

Question

I'm using a c# controller as web-service.

In it I want to redirect the user to an external url.

How do I do it?

Tried:

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect 

but it didn't work.

Answer 1

Use the Controller's Redirect() method.

public ActionResult YourAction() {     // ...     return Redirect("http://www.example.com"); } 

Update

You can't directly perform a server side redirect from an ajax response. You could, however, return a JsonResult with the new url and perform the redirect with javascript.

public ActionResult YourAction() {     // ...     return Json(new {url = "http://www.example.com"}); }  $.post("@Url.Action("YourAction")", function(data) {     window.location = data.url; }); 

Answer 2

If you are using MVC then it would be more appropriate to use RedirectResult instead of using Response.Redirect.

public ActionResult Index() {         return new RedirectResult("http://www.website.com");     } 

Reference - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rickandy/2012/03/01/response-redirect-and-asp-net-mvc-do-not-mix/