Difference between window location href window location href and window location reload

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What is the difference between JavaScript s  window location href   window location href   and   window location reload     functions

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If I remember correctly  window location reload   reloads the current page with POST data  while window location href window location href does not include the POST data   As noted by  W3Max in the comments below  window location href window location href will not reload the page if there s an anchor     in the URL - You must use window location reload   in this case   Also  as noted by  Mic below  window location reload   takes an additional argument skipCache so that with using window location reload true  the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server  window location reload false  will do the opposite  and load the page from cache if possible

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As said  modifying the href when there is a hash     in the url would not reload the page  Thus  I use this to reload it instead of regular expressions   if   window location hash        window location href   window location href    else       window location reload

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If you say window location reload true  the browser will skip the cache and reload the page from the server  window location reload false  will do the opposite   Note  default value for window location reload   is false

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Using JSF  I m now having the issue with refresh after session is expired  PrimeFaces ViewExpiredException after page reload and with some investigation I have found one difference in FireFox   Calling window location reload   works like clicking refresh icon on FF  it adds the line   Cache-Control  max-age 0  while setting window location href works like pressing ENTER in URL line  it does not send that line    Though both are sent as GET  the first  reload  is restoring the previous data and the application is in inconsistent state

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No  there shouldn t be  However  it s possible there is differences in some browsers  so either  or neither  may not work in some case

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window location href  this as saved my life in webview from Android 5 1  The page don t reload with location reload   in this version from Android

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In our case we just want to reload the page in webview and for some reasons we couldn t find out why  We try almost every solution that has been on the web  but stuck with no reloading using location reload   or alternative solutions like window location reload     location reload true         Here is our simple solution    Just use a  lt  a   tag with the empty  href  attribution value like this     lt  a href        gt Click Me lt  a gt     in some cases you have to use  return true  on click of the target to trigger reload   For more information check out this question   Is an empty href valid

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If you add the boolean true to the reload window location reload true  it will load from server   It is not clear how supported this boolean is  W3Org mentions that NS used to support it  There MIGHT be a difference between the content of window location href and document URL - there at least used to be a difference between location href and the non-standard and deprecated document location that had to do with redirection  but that is really last millennium   For documentation purposes I would use window location reload   because that is what you want to do

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Came across this question researching some aberrant behavior in IE  specifically IE9  didn t check older versions  It seems  window location reload      results in a refresh that blanks out the entire screen for a second  where as   window location   document URL    refreshes the page much more quickly  almost imperceptibly   Doing a bit more research  and some experimentation with fiddler  it seems that window location reload   will bypass the cache and reload from the server regardless if you pass the boolean with it or not  this includes getting all of your assets  images  scripts  style sheets  etc  again  So if you just want the page to refresh the HTML  the window location   document URL will return much quicker and with less traffic    A difference in behavior between browsers is that when IE9 uses the reload method it clears the visible page and seemingly rebuilds it from scratch  where FF and chrome wait till they get the new assets and rebuild them if they are different

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from my experience of about 3 years  i could not find any difference     edit   yes  as one of them here has said  only passing a boolean parameter to window location reload   is the difference  if you pass true  then the browser loads a fresh page  but if false  then the cache version is loaded

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A difference in Firefox  12 0  is that on a page rendered from a POST  reload   will pop up a warning and do a re-post  while a URL assignment will do a GET   Google Chrome does a GET for both

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The difference is that   window location   document URL    will not reload the page if there is a hash     in the URL  with or without something after it   whereas   window location reload      will reload the page

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