How to redirect an external URL in Play Framework 2.0 (Java)

Question

Redirecting to the internal URL is possible using the redirect () method in the controller.

public static Result index() { return redirect(routes.Application.tasks()); } 

However, I want to redirect the external URL to the controller. redirect (String) only accepts internal URLs as a parameter.

What I need is the equivalent of a standard Java Java servlet, for example,

 request.sendRedirect(String url) 

Answer 1

Sometimes a simple solution just ... works:

 return redirect("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10962694"); 

It is also worth using other available redirects , such as

• seeOther(String url)
• movedPermanently(String url)
• temporaryRedirect(String url)

etc.