Question

I want to redirect to an action method of another controller such that the browser issues POST instead of GET verb.

Is it possible to do that?

Answer 1

Well the nature of a “redirect” in HTTP terms is an instruction to the browser to perform a HTTP GET to a particular URL.

So, in HTTP terms – it’s not possible.

However 🙂

Instead of doing RedirectToAction("ActionMethod", "Controller", new { param = value }), you could do return View("ActionMethod", value) which would pass the value as a key/value pair in the HTTP POST body, assuming ActionMethod is setup with [HttpPost], like so:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ActionMethod(string param) 
{

}

However, keep in mind that will not perform a redirect – it’s like of the equivalent of a cross-page postback in ASP.NET Web Forms.