Change URL without actually changing?

Rails
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Is it possible to change the URL in the browser window without actually
going there? I know I’ve seen flash apps do this. Yahoo maps is an
example.

Thanks for your help.

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This is called AJAX.

Ruby on Rails has excellent support for it.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html

On Apr 18, 7:52 pm, Ben J. [email protected]

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Daniel F. wrote:

This is called AJAX.

Ruby on Rails has excellent support for it.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html

On Apr 18, 7:52 pm, Ben J. [email protected]

Right, I want to basically add a feature to AJAX. When I change content
on my page I would like to change the URL in the browser window so users
can bookmark it. Is this possible? This way I get the benefits of URLs
without having to reload the page.

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On 4/18/07, Ben J. [email protected] wrote:

Right, I want to basically add a feature to AJAX. When I change content
on my page I would like to change the URL in the browser window so users
can bookmark it. Is this possible? This way I get the benefits of URLs
without having to reload the page.

You want to use window.location. Its not strictly ajax, its just
javascript.

here ya go:

http://www.google.com/search?q=window.location+changing+url

  • rob

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On 19 Apr 2007, at 06:35, Rob S. wrote:

On Apr 18, 7:52 pm, Ben J. [email protected]
javascript.

here ya go:

window.location changing url - Google Search

Wouldn’t that trigger a reload of the page? You could have a look at
StateManager from the exanimo site, it’s the only AJAX state manager
I’ve found to work quite reliably on all browsers (including Safari).

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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Here’s a link explaining how to change the URL without refreshing the
page (for instance to allow the back button to be used with ajax)

http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/38/fixing-the-back-button-
and-enabling-bookmarking-for-ajax-apps

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On 4/19/07, Peter De Berdt [email protected] wrote:

Ruby on Rails has excellent support for it.
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without having to reload the page.
here ya go:

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

No, not if you just modify the hash (aka fragment identifier - the
piece after the ‘#’).

see: http://ajaxpatterns.org/Unique_URLs#Solution

  • Rob

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