Maybe I am not approaching this correctly, but I have a page where the user submits data via ajax call, if that call succeeds I want to return to a specific page (the previous page). What I was hoping to do is redirect as a post call, therefore the logic was going to be if I came to the page as a post I know that the call was successful and can do some action, if the call was a get then don't attempt to do that action.
The part where I am stuck is the only code I found to do a redirect on the client is window.location.href. So is there an equivalent method to redirect as a post (or for that matter any other verb)?
You can create a hidden form with method=POST and put the redirect link in the action attribute and submit that.
Alternatively, just redirect with a get request and a query param, something like example.com?redirection=1. Now just check if the redirection param == 1 and use that as a condition to do your stuff
The only way to post data is via an HTML form attached to the DOM. If your page doesn't already have a form you can use, you can do this with a bit of jquery like this:
var f = $('<form method="post" action="https://SomeDomain.com/Somepage"></form>');
f.html('<input type="hidden" name="Param1" value="Value1" /><input type="hidden" name="Param2" value="Value2" />');
f.appendTo($('body')); // required for submission to work in Firefox
f.submit();