Question

I am using RedirectToAction in my ASP.Net WebAPI application and I tried the following one.

return RedirectToAction("AuthenticateUser", "AuthenticationServiceWebApi", new RouteValueDictionary
                                                                    {
                                                                        {"userName", model.UserName},
                                                                        {"password", model.Password}
                                                                    });

This generates the redirection as below.

127.0.0.1:81/authenticationservicewebapi/authenticateuser/admin/admin@123

But, since I am using WebAPI, I need to be the URL like below.

127.0.0.1:81/api/authenticationservicewebapi/authenticateuser/admin/admin@123

How do I do this?

Answer 1

I’m not sure how your routing, Web API action signature look like so I will try to guess.
A few things don’t really add up here (why would you pass the password in the url?)

but…

Given your url structure I’d guess your routing is something like:

    routes.MapHttpRoute(
        name: "DefaultApi",
        routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}/{id2}",
        defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional, id2 = RouteParameter.Optional }
    );

Then given that, I guess your authenticateuser must be something like:

public HttpResponseMessage AuthenticateUser([FromUri]string id, [FromUri]string id2)

If so, then to redirect to this from an MVC controller you need:

        return Redirect(
            Url.RouteUrl("DefaultApi", 
                new { httproute = "", 
                      controller = "AuthenticationServiceWebApi", 
                      action = "AuthenticateUser", 
                      id = model.UserName,
                      id2 = model.Password
            }));