Question

I have a small problem related to action redirecting. I want to prevent users from being able to access information concerning a specific area in the site using an override of the OnActionExecuting in my BaseController class, which is the base class for all my controllers. Method body:

protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        if (Request.IsAuthenticated && (User as Eagle.Security.EaglePrincipal != null) && Session != null && Session["LastKnownGoodArea"] != null && filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName != "InvalidPermission")
        {
            var currentArea = Principal.CurrentCenter.CODEFORM_CSE;
            if (currentArea != Session["LastKnownGoodArea"].ToString())
                RedirectToActionPermanent("InvalidPermission", "Account", new { target = 0, redirectURL = null as string });
            else
                base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }

    }

However, this does not redirect to the specified action. What am I doing wrong? What other approach, if any, would you guys suggest?

Thanks,
Silviu

Answer 1

What Dave commented is right ! In addition this should be the syntax you are looking for :-

 protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            if (Request.IsAuthenticated && (User as Eagle.Security.EaglePrincipal != null) && Session != null && Session["LastKnownGoodArea"] != null && filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName != "InvalidPermission")
            {
                var currentArea = Principal.CurrentCenter.CODEFORM_CSE;
                if (currentArea != Session["LastKnownGoodArea"].ToString())
                {
                filterContext.Result = new RedirectToRouteResult(new
                    RouteValueDictionary(new
                    {
                        controller = "InvalidPermission",
                        action = "Account",
                        target = 0,                                         
                    }));
                filterContext.Result.ExecuteResult(filterContext);
                }       
                else
                {
                    base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
                }
            }

        }