onbeforenavigate redirect support

[atotic]

"redirect" is a common pattern. Ex: all external navigations go through "t.co"

How do you find the url user is navigating to inside onbeforenavigate handler?

Proposed API:

history.onbeforenavigate = (e) => {
  e.redirect(`newUrl?from={e.url}`)
}

POST requests cannot be redirected.

[tbondwilkinson]

Does such a redirect require a network fetch or is it just a URL change? Is this not currently achievable with the existing API? Or are you just asking for a more specific API?

[atotic]

It is just a URL change.

It might be achievable through the existing API, but I do not see it. How would you do it?

[matt-buland-sfdc]

I think this has been solved by https://github.com/slightlyoff/history_api/blob/master/app_history.md#example-single-page-app-redirects