PagedList parameter too long - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have an MVC PagedList which works just fine. I am filtering that list and the filter predicate is sent to the client during roundtrips. I use unobtusive ajax replacing. My pager code looks as:
#Html.PagedListPager((IPagedList)Model.Items,
page => Url.Action("Filter",
new ClientSearch
{
Page = page,
PageSize = Model.PageSize,
Predicate = Model.Predicate
}),
PagedListRenderOptions.EnableUnobtrusiveAjaxReplacing(
new AjaxOptions
{
HttpMethod = "POST",
UpdateTargetId = "clients-list",
}))
The problem is, that the Predicate parameter is too long. And it should be. I get the following exception:
"The request filtering module is configured to deny a request where the query string is too long."
I do not want to alter the web.config in order to allow long parameters. I would like to pass the model in a POST header instead of query string parameter. Is it possible with PagedList?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I still couldn't figure out whether PagedList supported posting large data, however I ended up with the following workaround.
I have a post method which posts the model to the controller function and replaces the partial view content with the results.
function postToPage(url, size, predicate, replace) {
var data = {
size: size,
predicate: predicate
};
$.ajax({
url: url,
data: data,
type: 'POST',
success: function (result) {
$('#' + replace).html(result);
}
});
}
I also have another function to replace the URLs in the pagination-container div and wire up the click event to call the post method. The click event stops event propagation, so the URL in the href attribute won't be used.
function replaceHrefs() {
$('div[class = pagination-container').find('a').each(function (index, value) {
var url = value.href.toString();
value.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
event.stopPropagation();
post(url);
});
value.href = '#';
});
I created a custom version of post method in order to generate the pagesize and predicate from the model.
function post(url) {
postToPage(url, #Model.PageSize, '#Model.Predicate', 'clients-list');
}
I had to wire up the URL replacing procedure to two places: when the document becomes ready and when the ajax call completes. These covered all the cases I needed.
$( document ).ajaxComplete(function() {
replaceHrefs();
});
$( document ).ready(function() {
replaceHrefs();
});
I hope it helps someone.