jquery - ASP.NET MVC resolve urls in javascript

Question

I am loading up some content via jQuery.load('/Business/Tags'), which works well when using my local webserver. But when using iis this does not resolve correctly. I have seen a couple different ways to get around this such as ResolveUrl. What is the best way to handle resolving urls in your javascript?

Answer 1

I ran into this exact problem with my JavaScript. Since my JavaScript was also in a separate file which was included in my Master Page, I couldn't use ResolveUrl in my case.

Here's how I solved it in my case. I included the following JavaScript in my head tag in my Master Page at the top:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var baseUrl = "<%= Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) %>";
</script>

I'm setting a global variable that's accessible to all my JavaScript files called baseUrl.

Your code would then become:

jQuery.load(baseUrl + '/Business/Tags');