Redirecting page after password

[kraftomatic]

Hey All,

I have a page, that has a "Management" link. When the user clicks on it, it pops up a little html page, prompting for a password.

I want to have it so that if the user enters the correct password, the main page (where they clicked on Management) will redirect to the new page.

How can I do that? It should be simple, but I'm not sure how to point the other page the way I want to.

Thanks.

[awestmoreland]

You'll need to use something like opener.location to refer to the previous window
e.g. opener.location.href="newurl.htm"

However I'm not sure how cross-browser friendly that is and you may need to experiment.


Andy

[kraftomatic]

So if a small popup windows displays, with a password prompt, can I set it up so that the redirect is on the previous, "main" page (not the popup)?

Thanks.

[Poop_Shoot]

Yes you could just in the popup page do this!

parent.location.href='someUrl';

[kraftomatic]

That doesn't work. It redirects the new URL in the current popup window ..

[awestmoreland]

Did you try opener.location.href="newurl.htm" ?

[kraftomatic]

Sweet, that worked. Thanks!

Funny, I've never seen "opener" used before.

Thanks Again.

[awestmoreland]

Funny, I've never seen "opener" used before.

Well like I said earlier, I'm not sure if that will work across all browsers and that may be the reason why. I can't find any definitive answer on which browsers support it and which don't so you may want to experiment with it some before going live.

Andy