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    copied!<p>I have a URL:</p> <p>Shipment/Search/{searchType}/{searchValue}</p> <p>and a controller action:</p> <pre><code>// ShipmentSearchType is an enum ... PartNumber, CustomerOrder, etc... ActionResult Search(ShipmentSearchType searchType, string searchValue) </code></pre> <p>So this means I can type in pretty urls like:</p> <p>Shipment/Search/PartNumber/Widget-01</p> <p>And get a list of all the shipments with that part number.</p> <p>Now I'm doing the busy work of the application and got to the point where I am making a search form that asks for Part Number and it will post back to Search. So basically I want:</p> <p>Shipment/Search/PartNumber/{user-input-from-textbox}</p> <p>Unfortunately I can't have a form get to the above url -- it has to be generated server side. So instead I'll have the form post back to Shipment/Search/PartNumber with {user-input} as a post request value.</p> <p>So I end up with:</p> <pre><code>[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] ActionResult Search(ShipmentSearchType searchType, string searchValue, bool? post) { return RedirectToAction("Search", new { searchType = searchType, searchValue = searchValue}); } </code></pre> <p>2 things:</p> <p>1) Is there a way I can get around having the post method of Search without using javascript on the client side?</p> <p>2) The bool? post value is there just so they have different signatures. That is obviously ugly. Is there a smarter way to do this?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>edit:</p> <p>"Unfortunately I don't think I can do that from a form (without javascript at least)." &amp; "Is there a way I can get around having the post without using javascript?"</p> <p>This was a bit ambiguous. What I mean is that I don't think I can have a form generate the url /Shipment/Search/PartNumber/{value-from-textbox} and have it to a form method get. I think this would be simple to do in javascript (override the submit action to build the url dynamically) but I haven't done that. I didn't mean that javascript is necessary to do a post.</p>
 

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