How to redirect to an external URL with POST parameters in a controller

Question

How can I redirect from a controller to an external URL using POST method and passing some parameters?

Basically I need to do automatically what a form would do.

I found Redirect method in my controller, but it only seems to accept a url string. No method nor parameters.

Possible duplicate of [Response.Redirect with POST instead of Get?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46582/response-redirect-with-post-instead-of-get) — Uriil, Feb 06 '16 at 16:06

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 06 '18 at 11:04

I'm using Fluentx.Mvc from Nuget for this.

Install Fluentx.Mvc from nuget

You need to include in your code:

using Fluentx.Mvc;

and the code to call a external URL with post:

First create a Dictionary like:

Dictionary<string, object> 
          objData = new Dictionary<string, object>();

and insert values:

objData.Add("name", "John");

objData.Add("city", "NY");

After that, use return from Fluentx:

return this.RedirectAndPost("http://yourexternalurl", objData);

In your external url, you get values :

string strName = Request["nome"];
string strCity = Request["city"];

How do you send headers with this..? – Ishan Jun 17 '20 at 09:47 — Ishan, Jun 17 '20 at 09:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '13 at 17:44

You can't do post with server side redirect. Options:

perform POST on server and handle results servers side (does not work if you need cookies to be set or used on destination server by that post request)
perform post to that server directly on browser side
perform AJAX post to your server and normal post to destination server if you need to notify both.

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