Question

So here is what I need to do.

I have a web app that needs to work with these kind of URLs:

http://app.com/?this_is_similar_to_anchor

By default, I can use window.location.hash and just use the # to change things on the URL. But I noticed a few websites are using a question mark instead of hash. And this is what I need.

Why do I need it?

I need to send whatever after # comes to the server, but CAN NOT send it using ajax once the page loads.

So, its vital for the app to have whatever comes after # in order to process the page.

That’s when I came to the point of using ? instead, so the server side also has access to it.

Its like client side and server side are sharing this parameter.

I tried different methods to just use:

window.location.href= 'add_parameter';
event.PreventDefault(); or return false; etc to stop the browser to actually change the URL.

TLDR: I need to be able to change the URL from this:

http://www.site.com/?url1

to this

http://www.site.com/?url2

on the fly, without reloading the page and NOT using #. (Or any way to convert the # to ?)

Thanks,

Answer 1

Use pushState which is what Github do, but note limited browser support.