I also ran into a problem with SmartNavigation, unrelated to the problem you are having. I came across some posts (can't remember from where) that said setting SmartNavigation = true caused a variety of problems. I've stayed away from it since then.
>No this is not the problem.
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>I fixed it but still don't understand why it works now. I turned off SmartNavigation on the page and now everything is fine.
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>Response.Redirect works in other parts of the application, just not on this one page (unitl I turned off SmartNavigation). It doesn't matter where I try to redirect; a local aspx page or any valid URL (
www.msn.com for example).
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>>You're probably using Form Authentication that redirects you to your default page if access to that page is denied. If this is not the case, try server.execute("file.aspx").
Chris McCandless
Red Sky Software