window.location.href on ajax success not working

Question

I've been trying to solve this for a while now, but I can't get itworking. When a user clicks a link he's asked to confirm that he wants to take this action. Then a ajax call is made. The script that's called works fine and returns a string where to redirect to.

I've seen several posts here on problems with window.location, buth none of them could solve mine.

My code:

function confirm(a,b,c){
        var r=confirm("Are you sure to do this?");
        if(r==true){
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "/process-action.php",
                async: false,
                data: {a:a,b:b,c:c},
                success: function(data){
                    window.location.href = data;
                }
            });
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

If I do alert(data) instead of window.location.href = data I can see that the correct data is passed. For instance /user/homepage. Yet, the redirection is not taking place.

If tried to replace the relative path with the entire url, but that didn't work either.

Answer 1

Try using assign() instead:

window.location.assign(data);

window.location.href is a property, not a method.