Question

Redirecting to an internal URL seems to be possible by using the redirect() method in the controller.

public static Result index() {
  return redirect(routes.Application.tasks());
}

However I want to redirect to an external URL in the controller. redirect(String) method accepts only internal URLs as parameter.

What I require is Play framework equivalent of standard Java servlet redirect i.e.

request.sendRedirect(String url)

Answer 1

Sometimes simplest solution just… works:

return redirect("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10962694");

It’s also worth to use other availabe redirects such as

• seeOther(String url)
• movedPermanently(String url)
• temporaryRedirect(String url)

etc