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Salih
Salih

Reputation: 11

How to hide parameters of URL

My current url is /Product/Create?date=5/7/2014%2012:00:00%20AM

Actually I want like this: /Product/Create

My sample code is :

public class ProductController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Create(DateTime date)
    {
        ViewBag.Date = date;
        return View();
    }
}

Any one can help me?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7058

Answers (4)

André Santos
André Santos

Reputation: 11

In JS:

window.history.pushState("", "", "/Product/Create");

Upvotes: 1

Christoph Fink
Christoph Fink

Reputation: 23093

You can use HttpPost to force this:

public class ProductController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Create(DateTime date)
    {
        ViewBag.Date = date;
        return View();
    }
}

And when calling the action you need to submit it via a form-post. If you show us the code how you call it we can help you there...

The HttpPost attribut will force you to use "post" - if you still want the "other option" possible you can leave the attribute away and just use "post" for your desired case.

UPDATE:
You need to call the action like:

@using(Html.BeginForm("Create", "Product", FormMethod.Post))
{
    @Html.Hidden("date", DateTime.Now.ToString())
    <input type="submit" value="create">
}

To your current code <a href="/Product/[email protected]">:
This creates a GET request and even if you want that you should do it like the following:

@Html.ActionLink("Create", "Product", new { date = DateTime.Now.ToString() })

This will take the proper routing in account and create a valid link.

Using e.g. JQuery you can do the follwoing to have a link if JS is enabled:

@using(Html.BeginForm("Create", "Product", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "myForm" }))
{
    @Html.Hidden("date", DateTime.Now.ToString())
    <input id="myFormSubmit" type="submit" value="create">
    <a id="myFormLink" href="#" style="display: none;" onclick="$('#myForm').submit(); return false;">create</a>
}
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $('#myFormLink').show();
        $('#myFormSubmit').hide();
    });
<script>

Upvotes: 2

James
James

Reputation: 82096

Assuming that this is infact a GET request for a view which requires a Date parameter (for whatever reason) I'd say your best bet is to pass the information as a custom header in the request

GET /Products/Create HTTP/1.1
X-YourApp-Date: 2014-07-05T12:00:00

Your action would then look like

public ActionResult Create() <-- no parameters
{
    ViewBag.Date = DateTime.ParseExact(Request.Headers["X-YourApp-Date"], 
        "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
    return View();
}

Some side notes

  • It's generally best to work with dates as UTC and not as Local (however it really depends on the circumstance)
  • If the date is important or used in anyway related to security then you should probably encrypt it.
  • If you are passing it up as a string use a consistent format and stick with it, this makes it easier when it comes to server-side parsing (see example)

Upvotes: 2

Ondrej Svejdar
Ondrej Svejdar

Reputation: 22054

In addition with controller change to handle only POST requests

...
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(DateTime date)
...

You also have to change code for calling action in markup from link to something like 

@using(Html.BeginForm("ActionName", "ControllerName", FormMethod.Post, new { style = "display:inline" })) {
    @Html.Hidden("date", DateTime.Now.ToString())
    <a href="#" onclick="this.parentNode.submit(); return false">Whatever</a>
}

Upvotes: 1

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