[SOLVED] asp.net delay before response redirect

asp.net delay before response redirect

Is it possible to delay the response.redirect in an asp.net page by 5 seconds?

something like delay.response.redirect("myURL.aspx")

I need to run a jquery animation before the page redirects.

I don't want to use meta refresh if I can help it but if that's the only way or the best way then please let me know.

thanks

Solution

if you posted to the server, there's no way to affect client anymore - all server can do is wait. And sleeping in web server is very bad - exhausts thread pool, bad for performance.

What you should do is delay on the client. Alternatively, you can post to that page using AJAX - that's the one I would prefer. Post to server using ajax, then get the response and wait 5 seconds (in javascript) before changing location.href You can even read the new location from the server (from the data returned by ajax call)