JavaScript to reload the page as GET request

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EMP picture EMP · Aug 4, 2009 · Viewed 19.9k times · Source

I have a seemingly simple question, but can't find the answer. I have a webpage, which may have resulted from a POST request and may have an anchor (#) in the URL. I want to reload this page as a GET request in JavaScript. So it's similar to this question, but I actually want to avoid the POST, not just the warning about it.

So, for example, if the page resulted from a POST request to "http://server/do/some?thing#" I want to reload the URL "http://server/do/some?thing" as a GET. If I try

window.location.reload(true);

that causes IE to try a POST. If I instead do:

window.location = window.location.href;

this does nothing when the URL has an anchor. Do I really need to do string manipulation myself to get rid of the "#whatever" or is there an easier, "better" way to do this?

Answer

EMP picture EMP · Aug 4, 2009

The best I've come up with so far is:

function reloadAsGet()
{
    var loc = window.location;
    window.location = loc.protocol + '//' + loc.host + loc.pathname + loc.search;
}

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