Nodejs : Redirect URL

node.js, redirect, url

Solution

Looks like express does it pretty much the way you have. From what I can see the differences are that they push some body content and use an absolute url.

See the express response.redirect method:

https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/master/lib/response.js#L335

// Support text/{plain,html} by default
  if (req.accepts('html')) {
    body = '<p>' + http.STATUS_CODES[status] + '. Redirecting to <a href="' + url + '">' + url + '</a></p>';
    this.header('Content-Type', 'text/html');
  } else {
    body = http.STATUS_CODES[status] + '. Redirecting to ' + url;
    this.header('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
  }

  // Respond
  this.statusCode = status;
  this.header('Location', url);
  this.end(body);
};

Problem

I'm trying to redirect the url of my app in node.js in this way: ``` // response comes from the http server response.statusCode = 302; response.setHeader("Location", "/page"); response.end(); ``` But the current page is mixed with the new one, it looks strange :| My solution looked totally logical, I don't really know why this happens, but if I reload the page after the redirection it works. Anyway what's the proper way to do HTTP redirects in node?

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