res.redirect from POST

express, node.js, post

Solution

You can't make a redirection after an AJAX. You need to do it yourself in Javascript.

server

post: function(req, res) {
     var login = req.body['login'];          
     app.use(express.bodyParser());


     if (login && req.body['login']['password'] == "tom") {
        var loginPassword = req.body['login']['password'];
        console.log(loginPassword);
        console.log('Granted access');
        res.send({redirect: '/blog'});

     }

     ...

}

client

$(document).ready ->
    $('#login-button').click () ->
        $.ajax
            url: '/login'
            type: 'POST'
            data: $('#Password').serialize()
            dataType: 'json'
            success: (data, textStatus, jqXHR) ->
                if typeof data.redirect == 'string'
                    window.location = data.redirect

This should work.

Problem

For some reason I cant redirect to /blog once my login is completed. In my login controller I have the following. ``` module.exports = { post: function(req, res) { var login = req.body['login']; if (login && req.body['login']['password'] == "password") { console.log('Granted access'); res.send({redirect: '/blog'}); } else { console.log('wrong password'); res.redirect('back'); } } }; ``` The jquery ajax ``` $(document).ready -> $('#login-button').click () -> $.ajax url: '/login' type: 'POST' data: $('#Password').serialize() dataType: 'json' success: (data, textStatus, jqXHR) -> if typeof data.redirect == 'string' window.location = data.redirect ``` updated to working code

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