Use of window.location doesn't work on iPad

Question

I'm using some JavaScript that will redirect the user to another URL after a fixed period of time. This is working well on all browsers but on an iPad 3 I have to test on it isn't working. The timeout fires and I call

window.location = "www.someurl.com"; 

and I've also tried

  window.location.href = "www.someurl.com";

I can see the URL in the browser changing to www.someurl.ocom but the browser doesn't actually go there - it stays on the same page.

Is there something iPad specific I have to do to make this work?

Thanks

Brecher

Does window.location.assign("foo.html"); make a difference? – Irremovable

Answer 1

try location.href = "...", should work on both

Shishko

Thanks - worked like a charm. Whats significant about window.location that iOS doesn't like? – Brecher

Answer 2

The right answer here is you are missing the protocol. window.location.href = "http://www.someurl.com"; should do the trick

Malformation

Answer 3

For me changing https to http made it finally work. Following other answers I also:

• have set the window.location.href
• added return false; after my change

My redirects worked in every browser and platform i tried apart of chrome on ios. After changing the protocol, not the redirects work!

  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
     window.location.href = "http://bbc.co.uk";
     return false;
  });

Lipchitz