Html.BeginForm() with an absolute URL?

Question

I need to have the POST action be to an absolute URL (e.g., http://www.cnn.com). Is there a way to use Html.BeginForm() helper and pass it the url?

Accepted Answer

BeginForm method has several overloads. In order to set the action attribute on the form tag with the desired url, you need to use following overload of BeginForm:

```
BeginForm(String, String, FormMethod, IDictionary<String, Object>)
// here are the parameter names:
BeginForm(actionName, controllerName, method, htmlAttributes)
```

Since you want to post to an external site, there is no need to set actionName and controllerName, just leave them as null.

```
@Html.BeginForm(
   null, null, FormMethod.Post, new {@action="http://cnn.com/post"}
)
```

This will not encode the action parameter.

Html.BeginForm() with an absolute URL?

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