window.location does not work in IE 6

[defireman]

I am having a strange problem with browser js redirects in IE6.

This is the code I am writing:

<script type="text/javascript">
function dropTag(droptag) {
var loc = window.location.toString();
var components = loc.split('/');
var tagstring = components[4];

var tagarray = tagstring.split(',');

if (tagarray.length == 1) {

window.location = "http://www.google.com";

} else {
var i = 0;
var remainingtags = new Array;
while (i < tagarray.length) {

if (droptag!= tagarray[i]) {
remainingtags.push(tagarray[i]);
}
i++;
}

tagstring = remainingtags.join(',');
components[4] = tagstring;
loc = components.join('/');
alert(loc);
window.location = loc;

}

}
</script>

The code works fine in Firefox. Can anyone spot my mistake? I checked various websites, but there are no indications of what I did wrong. Please help!

[DrDoc]

window.location.href

[defireman]

I've tried it. It does not work. I am not sure why this is the case.

[Bernard Marx]

I guess that getting the information by splitting on "/" isn't reliable.

How about posting an example url (ie no using your domain name) so we can see what the general pattern is.

[defireman]

actually, even using address like "http://www.google.com" does not work. I checked the script with alert()s, and made sure it reached the line with the redirect. It's just that IE refused to change the address, even with the command in place.

[Bernard Marx]

I'm not sure I'm following you.

window.location.href = "...."

- that's the more precise version. It shouldn't make a difference though.