MVC4 -> HttpHandler that redirects to a folder

Question

I have a web app ( all HTML/Jquery ), which I want to distribute to subscribers via the URL MySite/SubscriberId, without having endless copies of my code. So I have made a HTTP handler, which looks like this:

        var routeValues = requestContext.RouteData.Values;

        if (routeValues.ContainsKey("name"))
        {
            string name = routeValues["name"].ToString();


            switch(GetUserType(name))
            {
                case UserType.Invalid:
                    break;
                case UserType.Developer:
                    redirect = Settings.BetaAppPath;
                    break;
                case UserType.Standard:
                    redirect = Settings.FullAppPath;
                    break;
                case UserType.Tester:
                    redirect = Settings.TesterAppPath;
                    break;
            }
        }

This returns strings like /Code/Full or /Code/Beta. These folders exist and are part of my solution. The only way I've found to redirect at this point, is something like this:

        var page = BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath(redirect, typeof(Page)) as IHttpHandler;

        return page;

which, I believe, actually executes the page in the URL and returns the HTML. However, there is no page here, it's the root folder of a ton of files I want downloaded to the client. I tried doing a Server.Transfer, but this works, but it changes the client side URL. I am using the client name on the URL to log the user in, in the application, so this does not work for me. I need the URL in the browser not to change, but the URL myURL/username to return the contents of myURL/Code/Full.

Thanks

Answer 1

In your controller try

return RedirectToLocal(url);

From an HttpHandler you should be able to do something like:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect(url)