I'm sure it was working, but now it doesn't any more!

I tried a war in 5.0.28, 5.5.23 and 6.0.10 and the redirect did not work.

I installed the latest snapshot and created a new application. Again, the redirect() did not work in Tomcat!

Can you try again locally?

I wrote a shell script that

• deploys the Grails build
• creates a new Grails application
• creates a simple controller with two actions (actiona & actionb) where the one (actiona) redirects to the other (actionb)
• creates a war
• deploys it to a Tomcat webapps directory
• starts Tomcat
• accesses actiona via wget
• checks if a redirection to actionb happened

On all my Tomat versions on Windows & Linux, redirect() didn't work.

So I'm afraid you'll have to reopen this issue.

I think the priority should be raised to "Blocker".

Same here – apparently – I tried deploying to Jetty 6.1, and any actions that do redirects results in the browser just sitting there, churning along indefinitely without ever reaching the destination page/view/action.

Using a 0.5-SNAPSHOT from this morning.

Using redirect(), it indeed works here for me, too!

But shouldn't chain() work as well? I mean, isn't redirect(action:'otheraction') and chain(action:'otheraction') basically the same, ignoring that chain() can also pass model data around?

OK - I think I see what's going on w/ jetty 6.1.1 now: it's as if both 'redirects()' and 'chains()' are just simply being ignored/discarded; instead what happens is the action will just do the default render gsp.

So:

// UserController.groovy

   def home = {

      redirect( controller: 'site', action: 'list' )

   }

doesn't actually redirect to the list action of SiteController, what it does is attempt to render .../views/user/home.gsp

( of course when home.gsp doesn't exist, then I get a:

HTTP ERROR: 500

/WEB-INF/grails-app/views/user/home.jsp

Cheers
Graeme

Tomcat 5.0.28
Tomcat 5.5.23 (I always wonder where you get 5.5.28 from ...)
Tomcat 6.0.10

Using a snapshot downloaded one hour ago, I see no change in the behavior when deployed to jetty-6.1.1 .

redirect's and chain's are simply being ignored, and the default view is rendered for the action regardless.

Apologies - I accidentally tested using a war generated against yesterday's snapshot and not the most recent snapshot. Sorry for the noise.

It works!

Many, many sincere thanks to you Graeme - I can deploy!