Question

Other than querystring, is there any other way to pass a value with the redirect (since hyperlinks do not POST) rather than over querystring? I want to send some stuff to my action method when a hyperlink is clicked but not via route url params..I don’t want to always expose them or sometimes they’re overly complex strings that would be a nightmare mess in a url to deal with (encoding, etc.).

The viewModel object of mine obviously only persists I think with postbacks and if I’m not wrong, hyperlinks do not post.

Answer 1

To send other data, you’ll need to use a form to submit it via post, or ajax to do the same. Having a form post to an action is pretty painless, though.

@using(Html.BeginForm("ActionName","ControllerName",FormMethod.Post)){
...
}