Laravel 4: Redirect to a given url

Question

Is there a method in Redirect class of laravel where the parameter is a complete url? We all know parameters to these methods are just route name,action, slash,..etc but wha

Answer 1

Both Redirect::to() and Redirect::away() should work.

Difference

Redirect::to() does additional URL checks and generations. Those additional steps are done in Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator and do the following, if the passed URL is not a fully valid URL (even with protocol):

Determines if URL is secure
rawurlencode() the URL
trim() URL

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