window.location.href opens another window

Question

For some reason when I set window.location.href = it opens another window.

window.location.href = 'https://MyDomain.com/Checkout/Purchase.asp';

It doesn't happen in my development environment, only production. The only only thing different that I can think of is that we are switching from http to https. If this were a straight link () it would work.

Any ideas how to get this to work correctly? The url is built with Javascript (it requires some information from the user).

Answer 1

Have you tried window.location.replace() instead?

Answer 2

Browsers can be configured to behave many ways, you have no control from javascript if it opens a new window or not. BTW location.href is faster

Answer 3

What about specifying the target?

window.open("http://asdf.com", "_self");