I have a requirement where in I want to redirect to an external Url Here is my code in routes.rb

map.connect "/myapp/:someparam" , :controller => "foocontroller" , :action => "redirect_to_external_url"

In my foo controller i have this action

def redirect_to_external_url redirect_to "http://externalurl.com/#{params[:someparam]}.html" end

which will redirect to the external url

The problem That I am facing is After redirecting, The browser shows "http://externalurl.com/bar.html whereas I want the browser to show "/myapp/bar" url (ex http://mydomain.com/myapp/bar) for seo purpose.

Any idea on how this can be achieved in rails ? The Rails version that I am using is 2.3.4