Use of window.location doesn't work on iPad

Question

I'm using some JavaScript that will redirect the user to another URL after a fixed period of time. This is working well on all browsers but on an iPad 3 I have to test on it isn't working. The timeout fires and I call

window.location = "www.someurl.com";

and I've also tried

  window.location.href = "www.someurl.com";

I can see the URL in the browser changing to www.someurl.ocom but the browser doesn't actually go there - it stays on the same page.

Is there something iPad specific I have to do to make this work?

Thanks

Does `window.location.assign("foo.html");` make a difference? — epascarello, May 23 '13 at 13:06

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '13 at 13:03

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try location.href = "...", should work on both

answered May 23 '13 at 13:03

Sagish

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Thanks - worked like a charm. Whats significant about window.location that iOS doesn't like? – LDJ May 23 '13 at 14:00

Jason · Answer 2 · 2016-09-09T00:02:24.350

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The right answer here is you are missing the protocol. window.location.href = "http://www.someurl.com"; should do the trick

edited Sep 09 '16 at 00:02

answered Sep 08 '16 at 23:55

Jason

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '22 at 15:29

For me changing https to http made it finally work. Following other answers I also:

have set the window.location.href
added return false; after my change

My redirects worked in every browser and platform i tried apart of chrome on ios. After changing the protocol, not the redirects work!

  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
     window.location.href = "http://bbc.co.uk";
     return false;
  });

Use of window.location doesn't work on iPad

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