AJAX redirect, with absolute URL, corrupts the URL

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I'm trying to redirect the browser to a URL outside of my domain on some AJAX calls. I do:

page.redirect_to(some_url)

It works fine with internal URLs, when I supply the :action and :controller, but absolute URLs fail. Rails insists on applying HTML encoding to the URL, thus replacing the & signs between arguments to &

* Same thing happens if I do the redirect from the .rjs template or from the controller.

Do I need to do something else to get this working?

Thanks, Amir

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helzer wrote:

page.redirect_to(some_url)

It works fine with internal URLs, when I supply the :action and :controller, but absolute URLs fail. Rails insists on applying HTML encoding to the URL, thus replacing the & signs between arguments to &

That might be an insect. Try more raw JavaScript:

page << "window.location.href = '#{my_uri}';"

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Thanks Phlip,

That works great.

Amir