redirect to root url from a mounted endpoint?

[Paul Vencill]

Express docs, say that the res.redirect() method 'respects mount points', so if I'm in an app mounted at /blog and I call res.redirect('/posts'), it'll redirect to /blog/posts.  Is there any way to override that behavior?  Specifically,I'd like my auth module to be able to redirect to /login from anywhere in the app (including inside mounted sub-apps).  

Thanks.

[TJ Holowaychuk]

I was just thinking about this the other day for express 3x actually. I'm starting to think it's too high-level of a concept for Express, to override it you would have to pass an absolute url. perhaps maybe a solution would be:

res.redirect('/login')   absolute to GET /login

res.redirect('login')    relative to GET /blog/login

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TJ Holowaychuk

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Paul Vencill wrote:

Express docs, say that the res.redirect() method 'respects mount points', so if I'm in an app mounted at /blog and I call res.redirect('/posts'), it'll redirect to /blog/posts.  Is there any way to override that behavior?  Specifically,I'd like my auth module to be able to redirect to /login from anywhere in the app (including inside mounted sub-apps).  

Thanks.

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[Paul Vencill]

yeah, that'd be good & close to how most folks do it (except for the ~/ convention for root that certain frameworks use).  I'll hack my absolute url until then, but thanks.

Paul

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:14, Paul Vencill wrote:

> Express docs, say that the res.redirect() method 'respects mount points', so if I'm in an app mounted at /blog and I call res.redirect('/posts'), it'll redirect to /blog/posts. Is there any way to override that behavior? Specifically,I'd like my auth module to be able to redirect to /login from anywhere in the app (including inside mounted sub-apps).

Yeah. I wrote rather a lot of odd code to deal with this problem, so you're not alone. I don't think I should share what I did, since I'm not at all sure it's the best way to do it (it feels convoluted), but I'll be interested in the other responses.

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

In 3x you can now do:

   res.redirect('/relative/to/host');

   res.redirect('relative/to/mount-point');

   res.redirect('./relative/to/pathname');

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oh and stuff like:

   res.redirect('../new');

[Paul Vencill]

Very cool