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What is the difference between Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer

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Last Update: February 14, 2007 Asked by: Santhosh

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October 11, 2006 10:08:40

sujaykumar

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

Response.Redriect means it can redirect the page which is located inside the application directory.server.transfer means it goes to another directory of the file.

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October 14, 2006 16:03:22

mahesh l. nalawade

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

actually response.redirect transfters control to specific page. while response.transfer is the method to transfer data of one page to another page.

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October 18, 2006 11:06:03

cynthia justin

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

Server.Transfer transfers page processing from one page directly to the next page without making a round-trip back to the client's browser. This provides a faster response with a little less overhead on the server. Server.Transfer does not update the clients url history list or current url. Response.Redirect is used to redirect the user's browser to another page or site. This performs a trip back to the client where the client's browser is redirected to the new page. The user's browser history list is updated to reflect the new address.

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December 26, 2006 12:04:46

Sunil

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

As simple as this

Server.Transfer() send the request to server

Response.Redirect() sends the request to Browser

So If the Request is made for the location outside the Server it fails. so you need to use Respons.Redirect().

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January 09, 2007 20:26:52

gbengaoris

Member Since: June 2006 Contribution: 2

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

There are 4 main differences between Response.Redirect() and Server.Transfer().

(1) Response.Redirect() can direct you to any page. ie. pages that are part of your application and external pages whereas Server.Transfer() can only take you to pages within your application.

(2) Response.Redirect() updates the Browser whereas Server.Transfer() does not.

(3) Response.Redirect() does a round-trip to the server before it can load the requested page whereas Server.Transfer() loads the page without round-trip. Hence Server.Transfer() is faster than Response.Redirect().

(4) Response.Redirect() is a method of Request object which is an instance of System.HttpRequest class while Server.Transfer() is a method of Server object which is an instance of System.Web.HttpServerUtility.

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February 14, 2007 07:08:18

Rajesh K

RE: What is the difference between Response.Redirect a...

Response.Redirect( http://www.geekinterview.com )This will redirect to the website that is other than the application directory:Server.Transfer( http://www.geekinterview.com )Invalid path for child request 'http://www.geekinterview.com'. A virtual path is expected.It through a exception like above...bcz it never transfer other than current virtual path..We can change this to ..Server.Transfer( ../JF-Orders/OrdersubscriptionList.aspx )It will execute..bcz the site from current virtual path

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