How to check for redirects on ajax calls?

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How to check for redirects on ajax calls?

I was looking at this answer and some other answers http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199099/how-to-manage-a-redirect-request-after-a-jquery-ajax-call/199156#199156

I can not get this to work. i check the XMLHttpRequest object in both success and complete. In both cases when there is a redirect instead of getting a 302 i get a 200 and the html for that page. How do i make it actually report the 3xx redirect instead of skipping ahead and giving me a 200?

The problem most likely lies in your back-end code not returning the correct status. jQuery gives the same status it gets from the back-end so I would start by: posting code for us to see (jQuery and whatever your backend is) and looking at your server logs to see what is happening there.

thenduks 2010-03-13 14:55:31

i'll -1 too. Look at the answer linked in comments and the answer with negatives.

acidzombie24 2010-03-14 04:33:26

I suppose it serves me right for trying to answer such a poorly asked question. Nevermind.

thenduks 2010-03-14 16:25:07

You gave wrong information. "jQuery gives the same status it gets from the back-end". jQuery and redirects do not give you the status of a redirect if it happens. It gives you the status of whatever happens after the redirect. That was the problem with the answer.

acidzombie24 2010-03-15 08:52:50

No, if that's what happens then the problem is with your backend. If you render a response with a status code (say in a framework like Rails) you will get a redirect status code in jQuery. I do it all the time.

thenduks 2010-03-15 13:39:09

Are you positive? apparently in the standard says it must do it transparently. (comment has a link to a question, this was the solution http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228225/prevent-redirection-of-xmlhttprequest/343359#343359)

acidzombie24 2010-03-18 20:39:55

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