Question

I’m just building a simple ajax site but running into a problem in safari and chrome. I’m just creating a simple redirect if the user goes to a page i.e.

"/blog" 

they would be redirected to

"/#/blog"

code :

url = window.location.pathname

if(url != "/") {
   window.location.pathname = "/#" + url
}

This is working great in FireFox but unfortunatly webkit browsers are turning the “#” into a “%23” and giving a 404, for example:

"/%23/blog"

How can I prevent this?

Thanks,
Alex

Answer 1

You are setting pathname, which, by definition, does not include the hash. Webkit is trying to fix that for you (Firefox just made a better guess of what you wanted). Try this:

window.location = '/#/blog';