Firefox 3.6 - location.href not working in JSP

Question

I have JSP page with method = POST and action='/mydir/mypage/nextpage'

I have a button:

<button title='Continue' onclick="this.form.perform.value='cancelButton'; javascript:doCloseWindow();">Continue</button>

and JavaScript method like:

function doCloseWindow(){         
  location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123";              
}

It does not work in Firefox 3.6. On click of button; it redirects to the path I mentioned in form action.

With Tamper data I find that the request goes to URL (as in method) with GET and then it redirects to form's action URL.

I added return false in the method call also -- javascript:doCloseWindow();return false

I tired various combinations like

window.location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123";
window.document.location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123";
document.location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123";

But no success.

Answer 1

Remove the "javascript:" before the call to doCloseWindow.

At this point, you've already executed some JavaScript code in this event handler — it doesn't make sense to try to tell the browser again that the following code is JavaScript.

Answer 2

Try changing your Javascript call to:

function doCloseWindow(){
    alert('here');
    location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123";
    return false;
}

I'm wondering if the function is actually running.