Purpose of ActionName

Question

What\'s the benefit of setting an alias for an action method using the \"ActionName\" attribute? I really don\'t see much benefit of it, in providing the user the option to

Answer 1

It is also useful if you have two Actions with the same signature that should have the same url.

A simple example:

public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    ...
}

[ActionName("SomeAction")]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SomeActionPost()
{
    ...
}