Hopefully I'm not the only person to come up against this but it does relate to a v6 install and not v7.

I have a surface controller which is decorated with a custom AuthorizeAttribute EulaAuthorizeAttribute which basically checks that the logged in user has accepted a EULA for the site before they can enter any of the restricted actions on the site.

I am overriding the HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext) method and wanting to redirect users to their "My Account" page in order to read and accept the EULA. The method looks as follows:

protected override void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
  if (!filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
  {
    // Returns HTTP 401 
    filterContext.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
  }
  else
  {
    var myAccountPage = uQuery.GetNodesByType("MyAccount").FirstOrDefault();
    var player = this.PlayerService.GetByUsername(filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.Name);

    if (myAccountPage != null)
    {
      filterContext.Result = new RedirectToUmbracoPageResult(myAccountPage.Id);
    }
    else
    {
      if (!player.Active)
        throw HttpError.Unauthorized("You must activate your account in order to use the site.");

      throw HttpError.Unauthorized("EULA must have been accepted in order to use this site!");
    }
  }
}

Originally I was doing the following:

filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(myAccountPage.Url);

The redirect would actually happen but it is throwing an exception under the hood saying "Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent.". To get around this I tried changing the line as follows:

filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(myAccountPage.Url);

It is at this point I get the exception. "Cannot redirect from a Child Action". I understand the reasons why this exception is thrown however I'm not entirely sure how to work around this issue.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks, Simon