How to avoid "Response.Redirect cannot be called in a Page callback"

asp.net, asp.net-ajax, c#, exception, response.redirect

Solution

You can try

if (!Page.IsCallback)
    Request.Redirect("url");

or if you dont have a Page handy...

try
{
    if (HttpContext.Current == null)
        return;
    if (HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler == null)
        return;
    if (!(HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler is System.Web.UI.Page))
        return;
    if (((System.Web.UI.Page)HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler).IsCallback)
        return;

    Server.Transfer("~/Error.aspx");
}
catch (Exception abc)
{
    // handle it
}

Problem

I'm cleaning up some legacy framework code and a huge amount of it is simply coding by exception. No values are checked to see if they are null, and as a result, copious amounts of exceptions are thrown and caught. I've got most of them cleaned up, however, There are a few error / login / security related framework methods that are doing Response.Redirect and now that we are using ajax, we are getting ALOT of "Response.Redirect cannot be called in a Page callback." And I'd like to avoid this if at all possible. Is there a way to programatically avoid this exception? I'm looking for something like ``` if (Request.CanRedirect) Request.Redirect("url"); ``` Note, this is also happening with Server.Transfer, so I'd like to be able to check if I am able to do Request.Redirect OR Server.Transfer. Currently, its simply doing this ``` try { Server.Transfer("~/Error.aspx"); // sometimes response.redirect } catch (Exception abc) { // handle error here, the error is typically: // Response.Redirect cannot be called in a Page callback } ```

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