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Asked: 2026-06-15T03:08:32+00:00

In my C# .NET 4 MVC 3 application I have a delete controller for

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In my C# .NET 4 MVC 3 application I have a delete controller for a set of CRUD pages which uses the Post Redirect Get pattern to redirect to an Index controller after a successful delete. I would like to render a button on the Index page only if this page was NOT redirected to by such an action. Is there a simple way to detect if the current page was redirected to (i.e. was reached as the result of a PRG redirect)?

After reading http://blog.simonlovely.com/archive/2008/11/26/post-redirect-get-pattern-in-mvc.aspx my current approach is to set this in my delete controller with TempData after the DeleteMyEntity method has succeeded: 

try {
    MyService.DeleteMyEntity(MyViewModel.MyEntity);
    TempData["Redirected"] = true;
    args = new RouteValueDictionary(new { Foo = 1, Baa = 2 });
    return RedirectToAction("Index", args);
} catch (Exception e)
{
   //Logging etc. - redirect should never be reached on exception (and TempData item not set)
   throw(e);
}

then in my Index controller I check to see if this value exists and is true:

if (TempData["Redirected"] != null)
{
    //we can then do something useful with this
}

Another opportunity I see would be to add another item to args and check for this in the controller, but in this case I may as well just use TempData. Is there a way to do this using a HTTP Response code on the request without needing to pass this data through with TempData or a similar mechanism?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I use TempData in a similar fashion – for instance, to show a status message (after redirecting to) my view when a record has been added / updated / deleted. This is the kind of simple, throw-away stuff that TempData is used for, so I say what you have is appropriate.

    Personally I wouldn’t mess with HTTP status codes unless I had an absolute need for it. And you could probably do something with the referrer http header, but again, that would be much messier and more complicated than just using TempData. You have a clean, simple solution that works, I say go with what you have.

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