in a pop up after using window.location to redirect, window.close becomes undefined

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Here is what is happening...

My website redirects to Third Party Website which uses window.location to redirect back to my website. All this is happenining inside a pop up window.

The issue i am facing is in Chrome, after the redirect window.close is undefined along with some other attributes like window.opener Any idea how can I close this window ?

Don't have much control over how redirection is happening as its a third party website.

I changed window.location in one of my pages to redirect to another page and in that page this issue was reproducible.

EDIT:

The issue was not window.location redirection but something else ... Trying to debug it further, have found a solution though and answered in this question.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '12 at 16:37

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Once the open window navigates to a domain that is not the same as the parent, you no longer have access to the window from the parent.

To workaround this you can have a page on your site that just contains an iframe with the src attribute set to the appropriate 3rd party website url.

answered Sep 17 '12 at 16:37

Rich O'Kelly

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I am not trying to access from the parent but calling window.close inside the pop up itself. – Rishabh Sep 17 '12 at 16:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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The first answer in this question worked: Issue with window.close and chrome

window.open('','_self', '');
window.close();

This works... the only reasong that i can think of is, on calling window.open window object is reinitialized in the pop up and hence window.close() does not return undefined.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Sep 18 '12 at 09:24

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in a pop up after using window.location to redirect, window.close becomes undefined

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