[QUESTION] How to redirect a page on server side.

[blueowlgreenfish]

I'm learning how Jotsy application works using the cutting-edge technologies such as Rust, Axum, and Tokio. Right now, Jotsy application uses redirect.html to redirect a page, but meta refresh is discouraged by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as described here. If the Jotsy app developer decides to stick with meta refresh, it's absolutely fine. I just want to know a different approach to handling redirection, which is to redirect a page on server side. I looked into crates such as reqwest and hyper to do this, but I can't figure this out. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[blueowlgreenfish]

oh I guess I can use ResponseError::Redirect from error.rs and axum::response::Redirect to handle server-side redirection.

[ohsayan]

Thanks for bringing this to notice. I'll switch to using the Redirect impl

[blueowlgreenfish]

I think you should handle redirecting with Redirect and axum-flash. These two combined allow you to redirect a user to a certain page with a success/error message. Using only Html::from can display a success/error message, but it only regenerates a page and does not redirect a user. On the other hand, using only Redirect does redirect a user, but can not display a success/error message. So I think when you are switching to Redirect, you should consider using both Redirect and axum-flash to handle redirecting with a message.

[ohsayan]

Hey @blueowlgreenfish! Jotsy is actually being rewritten entirely, to improve performance and also help other developers who want to learn building web applications using Rust. I'm currently a little bogged down with stuff @skytable, but once I'm done with them — a lot is coming to Jotsy :)

Also, thank you for your note on this :D