How to send new response using response.redirect after sending response once in a single postback in asp.net

Question

I am displaying a loading div on the page init using response.write and response.flush until the time page is fully rendered . like this:

Page.Response.Write(loadinghtmlstring);
Page.Response.Flush();

I am redirecting to error page if some error occurs through try catch.

try
{}
 catch (WrapedException wre)
        {
            BaseUserControl.StoreException = wre;
            Response.Redirect(base.ErrorPagePath, false);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            BaseUserControl.StoreException = new WrapedException(ex.Message, ex);
            Response.Redirect(base.ErrorPagePath, false);
        }

Now if any error occurs on my page after displaying loading div I got error which says :

Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent.

Answer 1

I know this may not be EXACTLY what your looking for in an answer... but why don't you use Javascript for your loader dialog? YUI has a great loading dialog here and I am sure jquery also has one as well. THis would take the complexity of having an ASP.NET generated loader on the page, and may solve your error problems.

Answer 2

This is happening because you are writing and flushing the response (by flushing the headers get written). Redirect needs to overwrite these headers and cannot at this point. Once you have called Response.Flush(), there is no way to use a Response.Redirect().

You can do the following:

try
{
    Response.Write("abc");
}
catch (WrapedException wre)
{
    BaseUserControl.StoreException = wre;
    Response.Redirect(base.ErrorPagePath, false);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    BaseUserControl.StoreException = new WrapedException(ex.Message, ex);
    Response.Redirect(base.ErrorPagePath, false);
}
finally
{
    Response.Flush();
}