Thanks for the pointers! I finally got it to work. I had been doing
similar to your suggestion (returning ajax response like
["redirect_to": "http://www.example.com";], but I had been having
issues with setting the location and wasn't sure if that was the right
thing to be doing. For some reason when I had a url that had a /
before an anchor, ie http://www.example.com/#comment_32, it wasn't
redirecting correctly and that was throwing me off. Maybe that's not
even legal and just happens to work when I type it in. Anyway, once I
got rid of the '/' before the anchor (www.example.com#comment_32) and
used
document.location = url
that did the trick. Thanks very much for your comments, that was a
big help.
Margie
On Sep 15, 6:41 am, Alex Robbins <alexander.j.robb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Making the browser switch pages isn't too bad. Just set
> document.location to the new url using javascript. (The document
> object should be provided by the browser.)
> Maybe you should check the headers of the ajax response and if it is a
> redirect make the redirect happen using javascript? Or simply make one
> of the ajax responses be {"redirect_to": "http://www.example.com/"}
> and parse it out on the client side.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Alex
>
> On Sep 15, 2:07 am, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a situation where the user fills in a form and hits submit to
> > post the form. If my views.py code detects an error in the form, I
> > want to return some info to the client and put it into the dom via
> > jquery. If there is no error, I want to redirect to another page.
> > Can anyone advise me on the best way to do this? I've succesfully
> > used $.post() to grab the error info and put it in the dom. However,
> > in the case where there is no error, I can't figure out how to do the
> > redirect.
>
> > I've tried having the views.py code pass back the url that I want to
> > redirect to, and then when my $.post() callback function is called, it
> > sets window.location to that url. But this seems to have some issues
> > when the url contains an anchor (for some reason firefox seems to
> > cache anchored urls and not redirect to them in the normal way).
>
> > Is there any way to specify that even though $.post() started the
> > server request, that the server should just redirect to a url (ie,
> > using just the basic HttpResponseRedirect() or something like that)
> > and not return and call the $.post callback function?
>
> > Thanks for any pointers,
>
> > Margie
>
>
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