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copied!<p>Quite frankly, I think that approach is basically broken by design. You shouldn't have to make that decision at that place. For example, the ajax response could only signal that a whole new page should be loaded and the new content then be generated on a second (non-ajax) request to a new URL.</p> <p>In case you're forced to take the way you already go, and provided the response content is not very large, you could try Javascript-URIs. Basically, an URI in the form of <code>javascript:"string"</code> will load a new page which that string is the source code for. So, if <code>response</code> already is a string, just assigning <code>javascript:response</code> to <code>window.location.href</code> should suffice. Maybe you have to do some escaping beforehand. And I don't know, how cross-browser-compatible this approach is.</p> <pre><code><a href="javascript:response">load</a> </code></pre> <p>is also possible.</p> <p>A variant of this is building the URL not with the variable name, but with the actual string data. Like</p> <pre><code>function source2url(src) { // make valid javascript string from source text var esc1 = src .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\') .replace(/\'/g, '\\\'') .replace(/\x0A/g, '\\x0A') .replace(/\x0D/g, '\\x0D'); // make valid url from that return "javascript:'" + encodeURIComponent(esc1) + "'"; } window.location.href = source2url(response); </code></pre> <p>This will, of course, generate pretty large URIs. And you'll always have the Javascript-URI in the address bar.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>A similar approach is to use base64 encoding in a data URI. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia entry</a> explains how it works, including a javascript example. However, you'd have to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/246801/how-can-you-encode-to-base64-using-javascript">base64-encode</a> the content somehow. (Note: You can use data URIs with or without the base64 encoding. You have to see what gives you shorter URIs for your specific content.)</p>

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