Get matching route from URL

Question

How do you retrieve the matching route for a URL (in string format)?

Basically something like...

Routes.GetMatchingRoute("http://mysite.com/foo/bar/1");

Without having a HttpContext.

Basically I would like to RedirectToAction using a referring URL.

Answer 1

You could just return Redirect(url); instead of RedirectToAction();

I recall seeing someone ask that on SO before, but I can't find the question.

Edit: here it is (note the edit by the OP), there was no answer there either.