redirect_to with turbolinks option failing

[turbolinks]

redirect_to with turbolinks option failing

[adrianthedev]

I have encountered this issue as well and need to set the redirection server-side.

[jeremy]

From the README:

Note: in v3.0, the default behavior of redirect_to is to redirect via Turbolinks on XHR + non-GET requests. You can opt-out of this behavior by passing turbolinks: false to redirect_to.

Passing turbolinks: false means "return 302 Found to the XHR request" not "redirect the browser location to the new URL as if this hadn't been an XHR request in the first place." If that makes sense 😊

That's why 'data-turbolinks' => false works as you expect. It means you get a browser page load, not an XHR page load, so a 302 Found response does redirect the browser window, not the XHR response.

the default behavior of redirect_to is to redirect via Turbolinks on XHR + non-GET requests

This is still a bit confusing as it implies XHR + GET requests wouldn't redirect via Turbolinks.

In the example I've given passing true or passing false yield the same result.

Could you advise on how best to handle cross domain server side redirection on a Turbolinks initiated XHR + GET request?