Form that makes browser redirect when accessed by either a regular form submit or an Ajax request - is this possible?

Question

I have a web page with a form. When the user submits the form, I want the server to make the browser redirect to a different page from the form action. Right now, I am doing

Answer 1

Did you try using the error function instead of complete?

$.ajax({
    url: this.action,
    type: "POST",
    data: getFormData(this),
    error: function(request) {
        if(request.status == 302)
            window.location.assign(request.getResponseHeader("Location"));
    }
});

jQuery sends any 3xx response to the error function. Maybe the 'Location' header will still be available at this stage.