Replace current page with ajax content

Question

I have a page with a dialog window which sends ajax post data to server and receives a response. During development, there can be two responses - one regular (this is not th

Answer 1

Here is an example of how to change either if the response is a url or a html content (using django\php)

        var xmlhttp;
        xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();

        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
        {
            var replace_t = '{{ params.replace_t }}';
            if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
            {
                if(replace_t == 'location')
                    window.location.replace(xmlhttp.responseText);
                else if(replace_t == 'content')
                {
                    document.open();
                    document.write(xmlhttp.responseText);
                    document.close();
                } 
            }
        }

        xmlhttp.open("GET",SOME_ASYNC_HANDLER_URL,true);
        xmlhttp.send();