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Redirecting outside an application

Redirecting outside an application

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Redirecting outside an application

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- [Instructor] When we did the complete interceptors flow, we had employed the concept of forwarding. In this quick video, we are going to also explore the concept of redirection. So forwarding is trying to forward the control to a resource within your context. But if you want to go outside your application, let's say you are in HPlus right now, and you want to go to LinkedIn, or some other website, then how do you redirect your control to those other websites? That's what we'll do now. Basically, in the application, let's build this again, and find out where we are going to do redirection in HPlus. So I'm just going to open the home, and this link that you see, the one that is pointing to the LinkedIn hyperlink, that's the link we want to work out. When we click here, we should be able to go to LinkedIn. That is called redirection. You're leaving your application and going to a completely different context, completely…

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