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Best way to create form with Html.BeginForm() that should be SSL?

Answer 1

+2 A:

You can override the action attribute of the form created by Html.BeginForm.

<% 
   var actionURL = (Model.UseSSL ? "https://" : "http://") 
                   + Request.Url.Host + Request.Url.PathAndQuery;    

   using (
          Html.BeginForm(
                         "Action", 
                         "Controller", 
                         FormMethod.Post, 
                         new { @action = actionURL }
                        )
         )
%>

Note the use of the Model.UseSSL flag, which should be passed to this View by its Controller.

David Andres 2009-09-19 18:08:57

this might be what I need. let me give it a try!!

Zack 2009-09-19 18:10:19

ActionLink renders an anchor tag. Is there something that will return the url but have the same option of specifying the protocol?

Zack 2009-09-19 18:15:53

I edited the post. I believe you may be able to override the forms action itself. If that doesn't work, you can render the form tag yourself without Html.BeginForm, in which case you can control its action setting however you like.

David Andres 2009-09-19 18:19:33

@Zack: Overriding the action attribute of the form works.

David Andres 2009-09-19 18:39:09

I ended up writing out the form element and filling in the action attribute from a string I put togeter using Request.Url.Host, ResolveUrl("~"), and a config flag to tell me whether to use http or https.in your suggestion I think the actionURL just overrided the Action and Controller you set. Also, using PathAndQuery isn't the URL I wanted to post to, so those kindof made using BeginForm pointless even though that is what I wanted to do.But this got me close enough.

Zack 2009-10-09 17:35:11

Answer 2

A:

i know it's an old question, just a suggestion for a cleaner solution:

<form id="someLie" method="post" action="<%=Url.Action("action", "controller",new {}, YourConfigOrModel.UseSSL ? Uri.UriSchemeHttps : Uri.UriSchemeHttp) %>">
.. form elements..
</form>

this will render an absolute path containing the https://.. or a regular relative one for http

Avi Pinto 2010-07-27 10:40:03

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