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user2232273
user2232273

Reputation: 4964

Redirect url are not the correct

I'm working on a MVC 4 project with a user login page. It all works fine.

The issue is when i click on the link to log out, the redirect URL is incorrect.

Here is the code to explain better:

View:

<a href="@Url.Action("LogOff", "Account")">Logout ?</a>

Controller:

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult LogOff()
  {
     WebSecurity.Logout();

      return RedirectToAction("Login", "Account");
  }

When I click on the log out link, the URL show me this ==> Account/LogOff

But I want to redirect to this ==> Account/Login

Does anyone know what is going on?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 125

Answers (2)

VsMaX
VsMaX

Reputation: 1785

Remove HttpPost attribute and everything should be fine.

[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult LogOff()
  {
     WebSecurity.Logout();

      return RedirectToAction("Login", "Account");
  }

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038720

In HTML an anchor element (<a>) sends GET request, not POST, so your [HttpPost] controller action will never be invoked. You should use an HTML form with POST method if you want to invoke this action:

@using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account", FormMethod.Post))
{
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    <button type="submit">Logout ?</button>
}

Also notice that I included an AntiForgery token inside the form because your controller action is decorated with the [ValidateAntiForgeryToken] attribute and thus is expecting it.

Upvotes: 4

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