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shajin
shajin

Reputation: 3264

Rails redirection is GET or POST

The rails redirected_to is get or post
and the link_to is i think will be a GET request.(correct me if am wrong)
And can u please mention something about request.post?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 982

Answers (3)

Fabrizio Regini
Fabrizio Regini

Reputation: 1500

In Rails, redirect_to (did you mean that with *redirected_to* ?) helper outputs the HTTP header which is needed to instruct browser to move to another page, so the browser will do a GET request to the new address.

In HTTP spec there's no way to perform a redirect via the POST verb.

Upvotes: 1

Malte
Malte

Reputation: 1200

redirect_to tells the browser to issue a GET-request to the given URL. So to answer your question, redirect_to (indirectly) creates a GET-request, like link_to.

Upvotes: 1

Mörre
Mörre

Reputation: 5723

Redirects are reponses sent by the SERVER. GETs/POSTs are sent by the BROWSER. A redirect can be a (server!) response to either a GET or a POST.

request.post? in Rails controllers is "true" if the request was made as a POST, and "false" in all other cases.

link_to creates link HTMNL links, so naturally they can only cause GET requests - only via XHR or through a can you cause a browser to POST requests.

Upvotes: 1

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