AngularJS - How can I do a redirect with a full page load?

Question

I want to do a redirect that does a full page reload so that the cookies from my web server are refreshed when the page loads. window.location = "/#/Next" and window.location.href = "/#/Next" don't work, they do an Angular route which does not hit the server.

What is the correct way to make a full server request within an Angular controller?

Ezarra

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check this https://mcmap.net/q/223338/-angularjs-how-can-i-do-a-redirect-with-a-full-page-load – Rollie

With plain JS this works in FF and Chrome: document.location.assign(<url>); location.reload(true); – Sheba

did you ever solve this? – Monologue

Answer 1

For <a> tags:

You need to stick target="_self" on your <a> tag

There are three cases where AngularJS will perform a full page reload:

• Links that contain target element
  Example: <a href="/ext/link?a=b" target="_self">link</a>
• Absolute links that go to a different domain
  Example: <a href="http://angularjs.org/">link</a>
• Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path when base is defined
  Example: <a href="/not-my-base/link">link</a>

Using javascript:

The $location service allows you to change only the URL; it does not allow you to reload the page. When you need to change the URL and reload the page or navigate to a different page, please use a lower level API: $window.location.href.

See:

• https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location
• https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$location

Uvular

I'm doing this in a controller, not html. – Ezarra

$window.location.href does the same thing that window.location.href does. I'm pretty sure $window is just a wrapping service for window. Either way both do an Angular route instead of the full page refresh. – Ezarra

$window.location.href definitely causes a full page refresh, I'm doing it in my app. – Uvular

From the docs on $location: "What does it not do? It does not cause a full page reload when the browser URL is changed. To reload the page after changing the URL, use the lower-level API, $window.location.href." – Uvular

I've read the same thing. Doesn't work in the current version of Chrome. It does an Angular route. – Ezarra

I'm using AngularJS 1.0.6 with the latest Chrome, it's working great. What version of AJS are you on? – Uvular

1.0.6 from the CDN. I'm doing this within an $http.post success callback, if that matters, though I've tried it outside of the callback and gotten the same results. If I do the redirect to "/" (which I have an Angular route defined for as well), it works with the full page refresh, but "/#/Next" just does the view change. – Ezarra

Might help then if you put together a JSfiddle for inspection, and update your question. I can't reproduce the issue. – Uvular

have you tried location =location.href+ "/#next" ? or suitable variation that strips any hashes – Cannon

Same result. Angular route. – Ezarra

how about meta no-cache tag? Seems very strange that angular is intercepting window.location – Cannon

<a href="..." target="_self"> is what worked for me. thanks ! – Edgell

location.href alone does not work if it is same url with just different hash. – Copernicus

To anyone stuck, the destinationUrl must contain the http:// prefix, or it will open ww.yourcurrenturl.com/destinationurl – Customer

i couldn't get any of them work, until i tried target _self option mentioned above. – Transcurrent

Is there a way to do the analogous of <a href="/link" target="_self"> but in javascript? I tried to use window and $window but it always goes to an Angular route (I am using html5mode). I want to go to www.my-app-base-url/link sending the request to the server. – Subalternate

Answer 2

We had the same issue, working from JS code (i.e. not from HTML anchor). This is how we solved that:

1. If needed, virtually alter current URL through $location service. This might be useful if your destination is just a variation on the current URL, so that you can take advantage of $location helper methods. E.g. we ran $location.search(..., ...) to just change value of a querystring paramater.

2. Build up the new destination URL, using current $location.url() if needed. In order to work, this new one had to include everything after schema, domain and port. So e.g. if you want to move to:

http://yourdomain.example/YourAppFolder/YourAngularApp/#/YourArea/YourAction?culture=en

then you should set URL as in:

var destinationUrl = '/YourAppFolder/YourAngularApp/#/YourArea/YourAction?culture=en';

(with the leading '/' as well).

1. Assign new destination URL at low-level: $window.location.href = destinationUrl;

2. Force reload, still at low-level: $window.location.reload();

Safford

This doesn't work for me in Angular 1.3.1 with Chrome 38. The value of $window.location.href does not change when I assign a path or a full URL. Only $window.location.assign() worked for me. – Shrift

Having the same problems as Felix, solved it in a different way #31138309 – Kaka

Answer 3

After searching and giving hit and trial session I am able to solove it by first specifying url like

$window.location.href = '/#/home/stats';

then reload

$window.location.reload();

Zoosperm

This seems to fix the issue, but clicking back and forward on the browser will cause a lot of inconsistencies. – Shit

Answer 4

I had the same issue. When I use window.location, $window.location or even <a href="..." target="_self"> the route does not refresh the page. So the cached services are used which is not what I want in my app. I resolved it by adding window.location.reload() after window.location to force the page to reload after routing. This method seems to load the page twice though. Might be a dirty trick, but it does the work. This is how I have it now:

  $scope.openPage = function (pageName) {
      window.location = '#/html/pages/' + pageName;
      window.location.reload();
  };

Holder

Answer 5

Try this

$window.location.href="#page-name";
$window.location.reload();

Rollie