forward request using Javascript

[Bhushan Damle]

Can anybody tell me what actually

window.location.href

does?
I think it redirects the current window to the new location.
Is there any way in javascript that can forward the request instead of redirect?

[Christophe Verré]

No. The request being a server-side entity, you won't access it from Javascript, so forwarding it is not possible either.

[Bhushan Damle]

Thanks for the reply.

[Ulf Dittmer]

It's not a redirect either (which also makes sense only in the context of a server). Setting the href property replaces the current page with a different one, which leads to an HTTP request being sent to the server.

[Bear Bibeault]

Ulf's point is an important one. Many people talk about such changes in page location as "redirects" when, in fact, a redirect is a specific response received from the server that causes the browser to "redirect" to an alternate URL. Clicking a link or using JavaScript to change the page URL does not use the redirect mechanism.