Res Redirect

Redirect to the given url with optional status code defaulting to 302 "Found".

res.redirect('/foo/bar')
res.redirect('http://example.com')
res.redirect(301, 'http://example.com')
res.redirect('../login')

Express supports a few forms of redirection, first being a fully qualified URI for redirecting to a different site:

res.redirect('http://google.com')

The second form is the pathname-relative redirect, for example if you were on http://example.com/admin/post/new, the following redirect to /admin would land you at http://example.com/admin:

res.redirect('/admin')

This next redirect is relative to the mount point of the application. For example if you have a blog application mounted at /blog, ideally it has no knowledge of where it was mounted, so where a redirect of /admin/post/new would simply give you http://example.com/admin/post/new, the following mount-relative redirect would give you http://example.com/blog/admin/post/new:

res.redirect('admin/post/new')

Pathname relative redirects are also possible. If you were on http://example.com/admin/post/new, the following redirect would land you at http//example.com/admin/post:

res.redirect('..')

The final special-case is a back redirect, redirecting back to the Referer (or Referrer), defaulting to / when missing.

res.redirect('back')