Can I issue a redirect via htmx websockets?

[kwint]

I would like to tell my clients to go to a different page by sending websocket messages. Is there a way to do this?

I was thinking of sending a div that pulls a url that has the HX-Redirect header, but hopefully there is a cleaner way to do this

[Telroshan]

Hey, you could probably do it with a simple event listener, using either htmx:wsAfterMessage or htmx:wsBeforeMessage, and the native location.href or location.replace depending on your usecase.
Example:

wsSource.addEventListener("htmx:wsAfterMessage", function (event) {
    if (event.detail.message === "redirect") {
        document.location.href = "/my/url"
    }
})

Or you could for example define a custom syntax like a redirect: prefix then the target URL, for your JS to parse, or send a JSON with the target URL... Likely many ways to implement it!

Hope this helps!

[kwint]

Thats perfect, thanks a lot!