What is the difference between Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect? Why woul

What is the difference between Server.Transfer and
Response.Redirect? Why would I choose one over the other?

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What is the difference between Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect? Why would I choose one over ..

Answer / raghumadhav tirunagari

server.Trnasfer will prevent round trip. it will redirect
pages which or in the same directory. NO way to pass the
query strings . Thru http context we can able to get the
previous page control values.

Response.Redirect : There is a round trip to process the
request. We can redirect to any page external / internal
other than aspx. We can pass the query string thru which we
can manage sessions.

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What is the difference between Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect? Why would I choose one over ..

Answer / manjunath

1)response.redirect sends the message to the browser to
send to different pages while server.transfer will not send
the message rather redirect user directly to some differnt
page.
so there is no round trip in server.transfer but
response.redirect has the round trip puttind load on the
server.

2)server.transfer will not redirect to the different server
while response.redirect can redirect to any different
server.

3)server.transfer can store data using paramater
called "preserved form" , this query strings are available
in the next calling pages.In latter it is not possible.