Differences between Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer

"Server" and "Response" are objects of ASP.Net. Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect both are used to transfer a user from one page to another. But there are some remarkable differences between both the objects which are as follow.

Response.Redirect()

•         Response.Redirect() will send you to a new page, update the address bar and add it to the Browser History. On your browser you can click back.
•         It redirects the request to some plain HTML pages on our server or to some other web server.
•         It causes additional roundtrips to the server on each request.
•        It doesn’t preserve Query String and Form Variables from the original request.
•        It enables to see the new redirected URL where it is redirected in the browser (and be able to bookmark it if it’s necessary).
• ·        Response. Redirect simply sends a message down to the (HTTP 302) browser.

Server.Transfer()

•         Server.Transfer() does not change the address bar, we cannot hit back. One should use Server.Transfer() when he/she doesn’t want the user to see where he is going. Sometime on a "loading" type page.
•         It transfers current page request to another .aspx page on the same server.
•         It preserves server resources and avoids the unnecessary roundtrips to the server.
•         It preserves Query String and Form Variables (optionally).
•         It doesn’t show the real URL where it redirects the request in the users Web Browser.
•         Server.Transfer happens without the browser knowing anything, the browser request a page, but the server returns the content of another.

In the above article I try to explain the Differences between Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer methods. I hope its useful to you. Please post your feedback, question, or comments about this article.