redirect to an absolute url in angularjs

Question

How to redirect user to an absolute url in angularjs.

For example: i have a page, my current url (http://example.com/submit), once the user click some button in the web page, he has to get redirected to some other web page for example ('http://google.com').

I tried using

$location.absUrl() == 'http://www.google.com' $location.path('http://www.google.com') $location.url('http://www.google.com') 

But nothing works.

Note: The rediretion should not occur from the web-server. Its an REST API. Wanted to achieve in client side(using angularjs) if the user is valid user(authenticated user), redirected him to portal)

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to use the browser level API, with the object window, or you can inject the $window reference in your controller.

• window.location.href="http://www.google.com";
• $window.location.href="http://www.google.com";

References:

window

$window

Best solution should be perform redirect in your $routeProvider configuration, injecting the $window object and performing all redirection you need.

Answer 2

What about simple window.location.href = "http://google.com"?