Which the best method to use in navigating through web application pages

Question

Hello Forum,

Please I will like to know if there is any special advantage in any of these page navigation links?

For the .aspx pages I have these:

1. https://myaddress.com/dashboard
2. /dashboard
3. dashboard

In the serverside window:

1. Response.Redirect("https://myaddress.com/dashboard");
2. Response.Redirect("/dashboard");
3. Response.Redirect("dashboard");

Please is there any that is best preferred, because I have seen different people use different redirect codes to navigate web pages.

I asked this because I will like to know if there is any security advantage to using a particular redirect code.

Answer 1

Hi @Donald Symmons

Absolute URL: https://myaddress.com/dashboard

Relative URL: /dashboard, dashboard

Some browsers may reject the relative URL.

For mobile pages only, if your application relies on cookieless sessions, or might receive requests from mobile devices that require cookieless sessions, using a tilde (~) in a path can result in creating a new session and potentially losing session data. To set a property on a mobile control with a path such as "~/path", resolve the path using ResolveUrl "~/path" before assigning it to the property.

Generally speaking, Absolute URL is more stable. It is not affected by other factors.

When you change the name of a folder or project or other actions to change the file path, Relative URL will be affected.

Best regards,
Qi You

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