How ASP.NET PostBacks and Redirects Work

Last week I got the following two questions from one of our clients“We use ASP.NET PostBacks but can’t find the PurePath for the request triggering the PostBack handler – any hints?” “We see many ThreadAbortExceptions in our ASP.NET Application and we are not sure why they happen – are they expected?”Time for a little blog that gives some internals on PostBacks as well as Redirects (which are