history.location.href incorrect in IE9

[jonagoldman]

Hi, In IE9, the history.location.href is incorrect, but document.location.href is correct, as you can see in the next image:

This always happens whit the first page we browse to, so I think this is because the first page we enter is not saved correctly in the history state.

Any idea how to fix this? Thanks, and great script by the way!

[njam]

Probably this?

                    /*
                     * Note, this is the only difference when using this library,
                     * because the object document.location cannot be overriden,
                     * so library the returns generated "location" object within
                     * an object window.history, so get it out of "history.location".
                     * For browsers supporting "history.pushState" get generated
                     * object "location" with the usual "document.location".
                     */
                    var returnLocation = history.location || document.location;

[devote]

This is not a bug. This is correct operation history.location in non-HTML5 browsers

[jonagoldman]

So if I understand correctly the next line alone is not enough, and can something lead to undesired behavior:

 var returnLocation = history.location || document.location;

and I need to use Modernizr or similar to detect the real browser capabilities, something like:

var returnLocation = document.location;
if (Modernizr.history) {
    returnLocation = history.location;
}

or without Modernizr:

var returnLocation = document.location;
if (window.history && window.history.pushState) {
    returnLocation = history.location;
}

Right?

[devote]

Enough to use:

var returnLocation = history.location || document.location;

I write in their projects as follows:

(function() {
  var location = history.location || document.location;
  // ...
  // ... // other code
  // ...
  console.log(location.href);
  // ...
  // ... // other code
  // ...
})();

[jonagoldman]

But if I use it like that then in IE9 history.location.href is incorrect and different from other browsers, but I want the same behavior for all.

[devote]

I understand you. You want the impossible. But, IE9 has no support for HTML5-History-API, for this reason this library emulates this feature.

If your site is located in the root folder: /he/project/2/. To do this you need to add the directive basepath with a value /he/project/2/.

for example:

<script src="history.js?basepath=/he/project/2/"></script>

or

<script src="history.js"></script>
<script>
  history.redirect(null, '/he/project/2/');
</script>

[jonagoldman]

Oh, I will try that. Thanks!

[devote]

I close this issue, if you still want to solve this, let me know. Thank you