I have a $this->_redirector->goto(null,null,'admin'); inside my Admin_ClassController->viewAction() ... What is expected to happen here is for the page to redirect to http://example.com/admin but it goes to http://example.com/admin/class instead. Granted, you can do a $this->_redirector->goto(null,'index','admin'); but then you get http://example.com/admin/index (I'd prefer to not have the extra /index on the end).

Looks like a problem in Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector->setGoto(); ...

if (null === $controller) {
    $controller = $request->getControllerName();
    if (empty($controller)) {
        $controller = $dispatcher->getDefaultControllerName();
    }
}

should be:

if (null === $controller) {
    if (null !== $action) {
        $controller = $request->getControllerName();
        if (empty($controller)) {
            $controller = $dispatcher->getDefaultControllerName();
        }
    }
}

The addition checks to see if the $action was set, THEN we can get the controller name if $controller was not set - otherwise leave $controller as null. I tested this change in my application and the problem was solved.

This also keeps the functionality consistent as you can now do $this->_redirector->goto(null); and be redirected to the current module index rather than the controller you are currently in.

UPDATE: I have found another problem here... When doing a $this->_redirector->goto(null,null,'default'); you end up with the URL http://example.com/default instead of the plain old http://example.com/. This is also the case when doing something like $this->_redirector->goto('login','account','default'); you will end up getting the URL http://example.com/default/account/login instead of http://example.com/account/login.

Here is the change to fix this issue (separate from the issue above). This code:

if (null === $module) {
    $module = $request->getModuleName();
    if ($module == $dispatcher->getDefaultModule()) {
        $module = '';
    }
}

Should be:

if (null === $module) {
    $module = $request->getModuleName();
}
        
if ($module == $dispatcher->getDefaultModule()) {
    $module = '';
}

This fixes the issues I am having with it. Comments anyone?