Thanks, the last one works without errors (no idea how I didn't see 
finish() in the API and relate it to end() :) ). It doesn't redirect Chrome 
or Firefox though. I'll have a play around and see if I can work out why.

On Thursday, 4 February 2016 00:00:48 UTC, Ryan Phillips wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>  
> Paul, you will want to do something like:
>  
> res:writeHead(302, {Location = 'somepath'})
> res:finish()
>  
> Regards,
> Ryan
>  
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016, at 03:43 PM, Michal Kolodziejczyk GMAIL wrote:
>
>  
> Hello,
> as far as Lua goes, the correct syntax would be:
> res['end']()
>  
> I think that "POST redirect" depends on browser support. I do remember
> many years ago some browsers did redirect to the new location, but the
> POST content was not resent (so it was effectively redirecting original
> POST request to the new GET request).
> I have not tested it lately.
>  
> Regards.
> miko
>  
> On 03.02.2016 23:36, Paul Reilly wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for the reply. Unfortunately end is a keyword in Lua
> and it looks from the API that an alternative has not been
> implemented. writeHead(302...) without an end hangs the page loading
> so that won't work by itself.
>  
> I have it serving up a new page depending on POST data, but the URL is
> not updating in the browser I assume because it isn't redirected. It
> would be interesting to hear what the correct procedure is for this.
>  
> On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 23:09:54 UTC, alfred wrote:
>  
>   res.writeHead(302, {Location = root..req.uri.pathname})
>   res.end()
>  
>   Will this work?
>  
>  
>   On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:50:52 UTC+8, Paul Reilly wrote:
>  
>       Hi
>  
>       I am beginning to play with Luvit and have one stumbling block
>       left to finish an app, which is to redirect after receiving
>       POST data. I am receiving the data fine, but don't know how to
>       redirect it? Could somebody give me a nudge in the right
>       direction?
>  
>       In http.createServer I have...
>  
>           if req.method=="POST" then
>           local b={}
>           print("request is POST")
>           req:on("data", function(chunk)
>             if #chunk>100 then
>               return
>             else
>               table.insert(b,chunk)
>             end
>           end)
>  
>           req:on("end", function ()
>               if #b>0 then
>                 req.uri.pathname=processPOST(b,req.uri.pathname)
>                 --res.send({redirect=root..req.uri.pathname})
>                 --req.redirect(req.uri.pathname)
>                 --req:redirect(req.uri.pathname)
>               end
>           end)
>  
>       Thanks for any advice,
>  
>       Cheers
>  
>       Paul
>  
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