Re: server redirect solution?

Buzzterrier
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:45:08 -0000

Ok, ignorance alert, I cannot find what x-json and how it relates to
headers. Can you point me in the right direction?

On Mar 15, 3:04 pm, Colin Mollenhour
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wrote:
> I have used an Ajax.Responder with on302 successfully, but in Opera the
> responseText will be blank for anything but 200 so if you need to pass
> any data use X-JSON or another header. If you are using onSuccess
> instead of onComplete in your Ajax.Requests then this is a pretty
> transparent solution, otherwise I recommend you change all onComplete to
> onSuccess so they don''t get called when they shouldn''t.
>
> Colin
>
> Buzzterrier wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > We use a security app that sniffs incoming requests to make sure they
> > are still authenticated. If the user needs to be re-authenticated,
> > they are redirected to a login page. Upon successful authentication
> > they are returned to the page of the originating request.
>
> > Here is the problem, the server side redirect sends the response back
> > to the httpxmlrequest, where the prototype object dutifully inserts it
> > as html.  I tried capturing the on302, but for whatever reason this
> > does not get called (httpliveheaders shows a 302, but it never fires
> > on the browser). The cheesy hack I did was to search for some well
> > known text in the response, that I know is only on the login page. If
> > it exists I then do a window. location.reload(), which properly loads
> > the login page.
>
> > Does someone have a better implementation for this? I while what I did
> > works, it just does not feel right.
>
> > Thx.