@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ export const actions = {
 };
 ```
 
-Named actions are dispatched via a `?actionName` suffix on the URL (e.g. `/users/42?update`). The client primitives `useForm` and `action()` handle this automatically.
+Named actions are dispatched via a `?actionName` suffix on the URL (e.g. `/users/42?update`). The client primitives `useForm` and `action()` handle this automatically. The action key stays out of the page URL. When `POST /users/42?update&tab=profile` renders the page again, `useForm` and `action()` leave the address bar at `/users/42?tab=profile`, and `c.redirect('/users/42')` goes to `/users/42?tab=profile`.
 
 Use `action` or `actions` in a file, not both.
 
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ URL rewrites re-dispatch a request at a different internal path without changing
 
 Re-dispatches the current request at `destination` and returns the resulting `Response`. The browser URL does not change — this is a server-side hop. If `destination` has no query string, the original request query is preserved. If `destination` includes a query string, it replaces the original query. `destination` must start with `/`; known generated routes autocomplete via [`RewriteDestination`](#rewritedestination), while arbitrary strings remain accepted for dynamic paths.
 
-`c.redirect()` also preserves request query params for internal destinations, but it merges rather than replaces: destination params win on collision, and request-only params are appended. Inside a [named action](../../guide/pages-routing/actions-and-forms.md#named-actions), the action key (`?delete` in `POST /users/42?delete`) is not carried over.
+`c.redirect()` also preserves request query params for internal destinations, but it merges rather than replaces: destination params win on collision, and request-only params are appended. On a request to a [named action](../../guide/pages-routing/actions-and-forms.md#named-actions), the action key (`?delete` in `POST /users/42?delete`) is not carried over, whether the action or middleware redirects. A redirect after which the browser sends the same request again keeps it: `307` and `308`, and `301` or `302` after a `PUT`, `PATCH` or `DELETE`.
 
 ```ts
 import { defineHandler } from 'void';
 
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// On a page with named actions, the first query key selects the action
+// (`/books?delete&page=2`). It addresses the action, not the page, so the page
+// URL, history and c.redirect() leave it out.
+const actionKeyRequests = new WeakSet<Request>();
+
+export function markActionKey(request: Request): void {
+  actionKeyRequests.add(request);
+}
+
+export function hasActionKey(request: Request): boolean {
+  return actionKeyRequests.has(request);
+}
+
+/** `search` without its first non-empty segment; the rest is kept as sent. */
+export function searchWithoutActionKey(search: string): string {
+  let start = 1;
+  while (search[start] === '&') {
+    start++;
+  }
+  let rest = search.indexOf('&', start);
+  if (rest === -1) {
+    return '';
+  }
+  while (search[rest] === '&') {
+    rest++;
+  }
+  return rest < search.length ? '?' + search.slice(rest) : '';
+}
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /// <reference lib="dom" />
 
+import { searchWithoutActionKey } from './action-key.ts';
 import { createActionErrorFromResponse, isAbortError } from './action-result.ts';
 import { initClientHead, applyClientHead } from './head-client.ts';
 import type { HeadDescriptor } from './head.ts';
@@ -9,6 +10,22 @@ import type { PageObject } from './protocol.ts';
 import { createScrollRestoration } from './scroll-restoration.ts';
 import { isSameOrigin } from './url.ts';
 
+/**
+ * The server leaves a named action's key out of the page URL. When the page URL
+ * shows that, drop the key from the URL written to history as well.
+ */
+function withoutActionKey(fetchUrl: string, pageUrl: string): string {
+  const q = fetchUrl.indexOf('?');
+  if (q === -1) {
+    return fetchUrl;
+  }
+  const search = searchWithoutActionKey(fetchUrl.slice(q));
+  const pageQ = pageUrl.indexOf('?');
+  return search === (pageQ === -1 ? '' : pageUrl.slice(pageQ))
+    ? fetchUrl.slice(0, q) + search
+    : fetchUrl;
+}
+
 export type PageComponentModule = {
   default: unknown;
 };
@@ -809,6 +826,7 @@ export async function createPageNavigationEngine(
 
     if (method !== 'GET') {
       deferredRegistry.preserveValuesFrom(_committedDeferredRegistry, pageData);
+      commitTarget.fetchUrl = withoutActionKey(fetchUrl, pageData.url);
     }
 
     const [component, layouts] = await Promise.race([
 
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { CloudBindings, CloudContext } from '../runtime/handler.ts';
 import { isConvertedResponse } from '../runtime/response.ts';
+import { hasActionKey, searchWithoutActionKey } from './action-key.ts';
 import { DEFERRED, separateDeferred, type ResolvedDeferredGroup } from './defer.ts';
 import {
   resolveHead,
@@ -611,7 +612,9 @@ export async function handlePageMutation(
       props,
       params: requestParams(c),
       shared,
-      url: requestPathWithSearch(c),
+      url: hasActionKey(c.req.raw)
+        ? c.req.path + searchWithoutActionKey(new URL(c.req.url).search)
+        : requestPathWithSearch(c),
       errors,
       ...(head && { head }),
     };
 
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ export function routingPlugin(root: string, options: RoutingPluginOptions): Plug
   const runtimeEmailPath = resolveFile('#self/email');
   const compileOptions: CompileOptions = {
     honoPath: resolveFile('hono'),
+    honoRoutePath: resolveFile('hono/route'),
     runtimeEnvPath: resolveFile('#self/_env'),
     emailDir,
     projectRoot: root,
 
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ export type AuthCompileOptions = {
 export type CompileOptions = {
   /** Absolute path to the hono module entry */
   honoPath: string;
+  /** Absolute path to `hono/route` from the same Hono copy as `honoPath` */
+  honoRoutePath: string;
   /** Absolute path to the void/_env module */
   runtimeEnvPath: string;
   /** Absolute path to the project's `email/` directory; enables `__emailHandler`. */
@@ -154,7 +156,7 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
   lines.push(`import { AsyncLocalStorage } from "node:async_hooks";`);
   lines.push(`import { Hono } from ${JSON.stringify(options.honoPath)};`);
   lines.push(
-    `import { createRoutingRuntime as __createRoutingRuntime, createHttpRouteHandler as __createHttpRouteHandler, createErrorRenderer as __createErrorRenderer, createPageGetHandler as __createPageGetHandler, createPageMutationHandler as __createPageMutationHandler, createPagesFallback as __createPagesFallback, createModuleLoader as __createModuleLoader, createClientAssetTags as __createClientAssetTags, createManifestLoader as __createManifestLoader, createSsrFallback as __createSsrFallback, createAssetNotFound as __createAssetNotFound } from ${JSON.stringify(ROUTING_RUNTIME_PATH)};`,
+    `import { createRoutingRuntime as __createRoutingRuntime, createHttpRouteHandler as __createHttpRouteHandler, createErrorRenderer as __createErrorRenderer, createPageGetHandler as __createPageGetHandler, createPageMutationHandler as __createPageMutationHandler, createNamedActionMarker as __createNamedActionMarker, markRouteHandler as __markRouteHandler, createPagesFallback as __createPagesFallback, createModuleLoader as __createModuleLoader, createClientAssetTags as __createClientAssetTags, createManifestLoader as __createManifestLoader, createSsrFallback as __createSsrFallback, createAssetNotFound as __createAssetNotFound } from ${JSON.stringify(ROUTING_RUNTIME_PATH)};`,
   );
   if (options.nodeTarget) {
     lines.push(`const withRuntimeEnv = (_env, fn) => fn();`);
@@ -261,6 +263,15 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
     compileHeaderMiddleware(lines, options.headerRules);
   }
 
+  // After routing rules, which ignore the action key as platform dispatch does,
+  // and before auth and user middleware, so their c.redirect() drops it too.
+  if (pages && scan.pages.pages.some((page) => page.methods.includes('actions'))) {
+    lines.push(
+      `import { matchedRoutes as __matchedRoutes } from ${JSON.stringify(options.honoRoutePath)};`,
+    );
+    lines.push('app.use(__createNamedActionMarker(__matchedRoutes));');
+  }
+
   if (auth) {
     lines.push('app.use(async (c, next) => {');
     lines.push('  return runVoidAuthMiddleware(c, next, __voidAuthOptions, __voidAuthDatabase);');
@@ -296,13 +307,13 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
   }
 
   if (auth) {
-    lines.push('app.all("/api/auth", async (c) => {');
+    lines.push('app.all("/api/auth", __markRouteHandler(async (c) => {');
     lines.push('  return handleVoidAuthRequest(c, __voidAuthOptions, __voidAuthDatabase);');
-    lines.push('});');
+    lines.push('}));');
     lines.push('');
-    lines.push('app.all("/api/auth/*", async (c) => {');
+    lines.push('app.all("/api/auth/*", __markRouteHandler(async (c) => {');
     lines.push('  return handleVoidAuthRequest(c, __voidAuthOptions, __voidAuthDatabase);');
-    lines.push('});');
+    lines.push('}));');
     lines.push('');
   }
 
@@ -390,7 +401,7 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
   // Pages handlers win for their methods; upgrades were forwarded above.
   for (let i = 0; i < webSockets.length; i++) {
     lines.push(
-      `app.all(${JSON.stringify(webSockets[i].pattern)}, (c) => __forwardWebSocketRequest(c.req.raw, c.env, __voidWebSocketRoutes[${i}]));`,
+      `app.all(${JSON.stringify(webSockets[i].pattern)}, __markRouteHandler((c) => __forwardWebSocketRequest(c.req.raw, c.env, __voidWebSocketRoutes[${i}])));`,
     );
   }
   if (webSockets.length > 0) {
@@ -491,7 +502,7 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
     lines.push('  await scheduled(controller, c.env, c.executionCtx);');
     lines.push('  return c.json({ ok: true });');
     lines.push('};');
-    lines.push('app.post("/__void/scheduled", __scheduledHandler);');
+    lines.push('app.post("/__void/scheduled", __markRouteHandler(__scheduledHandler));');
     lines.push('');
   }
 
@@ -559,7 +570,7 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
     lines.push('  const result = await __processQueue(payload, c.env);');
     lines.push('  return c.json(result);');
     lines.push('};');
-    lines.push('app.post("/__void/queue", __queueHandler);');
+    lines.push('app.post("/__void/queue", __markRouteHandler(__queueHandler));');
     lines.push('');
   }
 
@@ -705,20 +716,20 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
     lines.push('  return null;');
     lines.push('}');
     lines.push(
-      `app.post("/__void/migrate", (c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(${auth ? 'true' : 'false'}, false)(c.req.raw));`,
+      `app.post("/__void/migrate", __markRouteHandler((c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(${auth ? 'true' : 'false'}, false)(c.req.raw)));`,
     );
     lines.push(
-      `app.get("/__void/migrate/capabilities", (c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(${auth ? 'true' : 'false'}, true)(c.req.raw));`,
+      `app.get("/__void/migrate/capabilities", __markRouteHandler((c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(${auth ? 'true' : 'false'}, true)(c.req.raw)));`,
     );
     lines.push(
-      'app.post("/__void/migrate/app", (c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(false, true)(c.req.raw));',
+      'app.post("/__void/migrate/app", __markRouteHandler((c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(false, true)(c.req.raw)));',
     );
     lines.push(
-      'app.get("/__void/migrate/app/attempt/:attemptId", (c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(false, true)(c.req.raw));',
+      'app.get("/__void/migrate/app/attempt/:attemptId", __markRouteHandler((c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(false, true)(c.req.raw)));',
     );
     if (auth) {
       lines.push(
-        'app.post("/__void/migrate/auth", (c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(true, true)(c.req.raw));',
+        'app.post("/__void/migrate/auth", __markRouteHandler((c) => __voidCreateMigrationRequestHandler(true, true)(c.req.raw)));',
       );
     }
     lines.push('');
@@ -733,14 +744,14 @@ export function compileRouteTable(
       `import { createBindingHandler as __createBindingHandler } from ${JSON.stringify(options.bindingHandlerPath)};`,
     );
     lines.push('let __voidBindingApp;');
-    lines.push('app.all("/__void/*", async (c) => {');
+    lines.push('app.all("/__void/*", __markRouteHandler(async (c) => {');
     lines.push(
       '  if (!__voidBindingApp) __voidBindingApp = __createBindingHandler(__getRawEnv());',
     );
     lines.push('  const url = new URL(c.req.url);');
     lines.push('  url.pathname = url.pathname.slice(7);');
     lines.push('  return __voidBindingApp.fetch(new Request(url.toString(), c.req.raw));');
-    lines.push('});');
+    lines.push('}));');
     lines.push('');
   }
 
 
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import type { Context } from 'hono';
+import type { Context, MiddlewareHandler } from 'hono';
+import { markActionKey } from '../pages/action-key.ts';
 import { handlePageGet, handlePageMutation } from '../pages/protocol.ts';
 import type { ClientAssetTags } from './routing-assets.ts';
 import type { ErrorRenderer } from './routing-errors.ts';
@@ -22,14 +23,39 @@ export type PageRouteOptions = {
   renderOptions: PageGetArguments[7];
   namedActions?: boolean;
 };
-// Requests whose first query key selected a named action. That key addresses
-// the action, not the page, so c.redirect() must not carry it over.
-const actionQueryRequests = new WeakSet<Request>();
-export function hasActionQueryKey(request: Request): boolean {
-  return actionQueryRequests.has(request);
+function actionNameOf(url: string): string | undefined {
+  return new URL(url).searchParams.keys().next().value;
+}
+const routeHandlers = new WeakSet<Function>();
+const namedActionHandlers = new WeakSet<Function>();
+/** Records a handler that answers a route, so the marker can tell it from middleware. */
+export function markRouteHandler<T extends Function>(handler: T): T {
+  routeHandlers.add(handler);
+  return handler;
+}
+/**
+ * Runs before auth and user middleware, so a c.redirect() there leaves the
+ * action key out too. It marks the request only when a page with named actions
+ * is the route that will answer it, not when a broad page pattern also matches.
+ *
+ * `matchedRoutes` comes from 'hono/route' of the same Hono copy as the app: it
+ * reads the request through a Symbol that each copy defines for itself.
+ */
+export function createNamedActionMarker(
+  matchedRoutes: (c: Context) => Array<{ handler: Function }>,
+): MiddlewareHandler {
+  return async (c, next) => {
+    const answer = matchedRoutes(c)
+      .slice(c.req.routeIndex + 1)
+      .find((route) => routeHandlers.has(route.handler));
+    if (answer && namedActionHandlers.has(answer.handler) && actionNameOf(c.req.url)) {
+      markActionKey(c.req.raw);
+    }
+    await next();
+  };
 }
 export function createPageGetHandler(options: PageRouteOptions): (c: Context) => Promise<Response> {
-  return async (context) => {
+  return markRouteHandler(async (context: Context) => {
     const mod = options.load ? await options.load() : { head: options.head };
     return handlePageGet(
       mod.loader,
@@ -41,16 +67,14 @@ export function createPageGetHandler(options: PageRouteOptions): (c: Context) =>
       options.headConfig ?? undefined,
       options.renderOptions,
     );
-  };
+  });
 }
 export function createPageMutationHandler(
   options: PageRouteOptions,
 ): (c: Context) => Promise<Response> {
-  return async (context) => {
+  const mutationHandler = async (context: Context) => {
     const mod = options.load ? await options.load() : {};
-    const actionName = options.namedActions
-      ? new URL(context.req.url).searchParams.keys().next().value
-      : undefined;
+    const actionName = options.namedActions ? actionNameOf(context.req.url) : undefined;
     // The name comes from the query string, so only own function properties
     // count; `?constructor` or `?valueOf` must not reach Object.prototype.
     const name = actionName || 'default';
@@ -67,7 +91,7 @@ export function createPageMutationHandler(
       });
     }
     if (actionName) {
-      actionQueryRequests.add(context.req.raw);
+      markActionKey(context.req.raw);
     }
     return handlePageMutation(
       handler,
@@ -81,6 +105,10 @@ export function createPageMutationHandler(
       options.renderOptions,
     );
   };
+  if (options.namedActions) {
+    namedActionHandlers.add(mutationHandler);
+  }
+  return markRouteHandler(mutationHandler);
 }
 
 export function createPagesFallback(options: {