How to redirect through 'POST' method using Javascript?

Question

I've queried and doesn't work out what I've found. Is there any way to redirect to give url with POST method using Javascript or jquery?

Answer 1

Based on Eugene Naydenov's answer, I ended up using this which is able to fill form data also, hope to be useful for others:

function redirectPost(url, data) {     var form = document.createElement('form');     document.body.appendChild(form);     form.method = 'post';     form.action = url;     for (var name in data) {         var input = document.createElement('input');         input.type = 'hidden';         input.name = name;         input.value = data[name];         form.appendChild(input);     }     form.submit(); }  // redirectPost('http://www.example.com', { text: 'text\n\ntext' }); 

Update (2021): Some years later turned out a version that opens a new tab/window also would be useful for me so hopefully this would be useful also, just that make sure this will happen in a click event as browsers should block that otherwise,

function openPostPage(url, data) {     var form = document.createElement('form');     document.body.appendChild(form);     form.target = '_blank';     form.method = 'post';     form.action = url;     for (var name in data) {         var input = document.createElement('input');         input.type = 'hidden';         input.name = name;         input.value = data[name];         form.appendChild(input);     }     form.submit();     document.body.removeChild(form); } 

Answer 2

Create a form, fill method and action attributes, submit the form.

var redirect = function(url, method) {     var form = document.createElement('form');     form.method = method;     form.action = url;     form.submit(); };  redirect('http://www.example.com', 'post'); 

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jQuery version (but I'd prefer pure JavaScript in this particular case):

var redirect = function(url, method) {     $('<form>', {         method: method,         action: url     }).submit(); };  redirect('http://www.example.com', 'post');