jQuery and AJAX response header

Question

So I\'ve got this jQuery AJAX call, and the response comes from the server in the form of a 302 redirect. I\'d like to take this redirect and load it in an iframe, but when

Answer 1

The underlying XMLHttpRequest object used by jQuery will always silently follow redirects rather than return a 302 status code. Therefore, you can't use jQuery's AJAX request functionality to get the returned URL. Instead, you need to put all the data into a form and submit the form with the target attribute set to the value of the name attribute of the iframe:

$('#myIframe').attr('name', 'myIframe');

var form = $('
').attr('target', 'myIframe');
$('').attr({name: 'search', value: 'test'}).appendTo(form);

form.appendTo(document.body);
form.submit();

The server's url.do page will be loaded in the iframe, but when its 302 status arrives, the iframe will be redirected to the final destination.