Question

This should be the easiest thing in the world, but a POST redirect is not working.

A remote system normally POSTs data to one of my methods “mainhandler’

In one situation, though, it POSTs data to a different handler “noaudio” which is SUPPOSED to simply erase a session variable then “pass the POST” on to the normal handler (“mainhandler”)

My route:

  match '/mainhandler' =>"widgets#mainhandler"

My code:

def noaudio
  puts "**** NOAUDIO"
  session[:audiofile] = ""
  redirect_to "/mainhandler"
end

def mainhandler
  puts "**** NEVER GETS HERE FROM NOAUDIO ??"
end

what I see in the log (below) it LOOKS like the redirect happens but the handler “mainhandler” is never executed… I see the “puts” in the noaudio handler and I see what looks like a good redirect… but mainhandler never gets executed.

**** NOAUDIO

Started POST "/noaudio" for 1.2.3.4 at 2011-03-07 09:39:22 -0800
  Processing by WidgetsController#noaudio as HTML
  Parameters: blah blah blah
Redirected to http://mydomain.com/mainhandler
Completed 302 Found in 1ms

Am I using redirect_to incorrectly? or does it not work for a POST? (Although I would presumably still see at least a GET)

Answer 1

Redirects do not work for POSTs indeed.

You may want to take a look at that for some more info :

redirect_to using POST in rails