Question

I have the following couple of methods in my CommentsController.

    [HttpGet]
    [Authorize]
    public ActionResult New(long id)
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Details", "Posts", new { id }); // lets be graceful.
    }

    [HttpPost]
    [Authorize]
    public ActionResult New(long id, string comment, IMiniPrincipal principal)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

Both are resolved through any posts/{id}/comment route where id is a numeric value. I added the GET action mostly to avoid confusion (instead of just telling the user it doesn’t exist when they attempt to access the route manually instead of through a form POST, I redirect them to the post the comment would’ve been submitted to).

The question is whether I can use a Permanent Redirect result in HTTP GET requests and still not get permanently redirected during HTTP POST requests?

Answer 1

Permanent redirect works on a per-method basis, so you can actually perform a permanent redirect on a POST to a given url, while serving content on GET requests to the same url.