Question

Right now, I have an action associated with just the POST from the Index page in my MVC app. But I want a generic handler action that handles all page posts and within the POST Handler action, I want to know the view that I just came from. What I want is below: Any ideas?

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
    public ActionResult GenericPostHandler(NewAccountInfo info)
    {
        try
        {
            string currentview = //how to get View for which to handle the POST?
            Persist();

            return RedirectToAction(StepManager.GetNextStep(currentView));
        }
        catch
        {
            return View();
        }
    }

Answer 1

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult GenericPostHandler(NewAccountInfo info, string fromViewName)
{
    ...
}

In Views:

<% var actionUrl = Url.RouteUrl(new {
    controller = "yourcontroller",
    action = "genericposthandler",
    fromviewname = "whereyoucamefrom"
}); %>

<form action="<%= actionUrl %>" method="post">
    ...
</form>

produces url like /yourcontroller/genericposthandler?fromviewname=whereyoucamefrom