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I would like to redirect to another page within an action method when for instance a certain exception occurs or authorization fails. This is not a problem with normal requests, however when the request is made via Ajax, redirection fails.
Many folks out there seem to suggest that I should send back a JavaScriptResult and change the document.location, but I’m not sure if this is the best solution. Are there any alternative ways to achieve this? Thanks.
P.S. I am using ASP.NET MVC v1.0.
The only way to do a “redirect” via AJAX is with javascript, whether you pass back a JavaScriptResult with a script that sets the location or the new URL in JSON and set the location in the callback handler. I think the choice really depends on how you would handle the result of the request otherwise. If it’s always going to redirect, I would simply make the request without AJAX. If normally, you’d return HTML that gets put on the page, then a JavaScriptResult may be better. If you’re typically getting JSON and updating the page via code, then I’d send back a JSON response containing the URL and let the callback handler set the location.