asp.net mvc - 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?

Answer 1

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.