[Catalyst-dev] RFC: DWIM redirects

[Robert 'phaylon' Sedlacek]

Jonathan Rockway said:
>
> During a recent IRC conversation, the idea came up to implement a
> $c->redirect
> method that works like $c->forward.  It will accept an application path
> ('/controller/action', etc.) and will immediately halt processing (like
> $c->detach('action')) but will issue an HTTP redirect to the uri_for the
> action.

Sounds great, I'm just worried users will confuse $c->req->redirect and
$c->redirect. Although, I'm rather worried they'll get confused while
trying to get help in #catalyst :) How about 'redirect_to'?
'external_forward' sounds a bit goofy.

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