From e0b708fb084ab5ea4373e51bb800baa46ff2f1ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Jackson <mjijackson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:25:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [added] Ability to transitionTo absolute URLs

---
 modules/actions/LocationActions.js | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 modules/utils/isAbsoluteURL.js     | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 modules/utils/isAbsoluteURL.js

diff --git a/modules/actions/LocationActions.js b/modules/actions/LocationActions.js
index d6c9e699d5..0cf19f75bc 100644
--- a/modules/actions/LocationActions.js
+++ b/modules/actions/LocationActions.js
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 var LocationDispatcher = require('../dispatchers/LocationDispatcher');
+var isAbsoluteURL = require('../utils/isAbsoluteURL');
 var makePath = require('../utils/makePath');
 
+function loadURL(url) {
+  window.location = url;
+}
+
 /**
  * Actions that modify the URL.
  */
@@ -16,10 +21,14 @@ var LocationActions = {
    * a new URL onto the history stack.
    */
   transitionTo: function (to, params, query) {
-    LocationDispatcher.handleViewAction({
-      type: LocationActions.PUSH,
-      path: makePath(to, params, query)
-    });
+    if (isAbsoluteURL(to)) {
+      loadURL(to);
+    } else {
+      LocationDispatcher.handleViewAction({
+        type: LocationActions.PUSH,
+        path: makePath(to, params, query)
+      });
+    }
   },
 
   /**
@@ -27,10 +36,14 @@ var LocationActions = {
    * the current URL in the history stack.
    */
   replaceWith: function (to, params, query) {
-    LocationDispatcher.handleViewAction({
-      type: LocationActions.REPLACE,
-      path: makePath(to, params, query)
-    });
+    if (isAbsoluteURL(to)) {
+      loadURL(to);
+    } else {
+      LocationDispatcher.handleViewAction({
+        type: LocationActions.REPLACE,
+        path: makePath(to, params, query)
+      });
+    }
   },
 
   /**
diff --git a/modules/utils/isAbsoluteURL.js b/modules/utils/isAbsoluteURL.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bdcd806583
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/utils/isAbsoluteURL.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+var ABSOLUTE_URL_FORMAT = /^https?:\/\//;
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if the given string contains an absolute URL
+ * according to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-27.
+ */
+function isAbsoluteURL(string) {
+  return typeof string === 'string' && ABSOLUTE_URL_FORMAT.test(string);
+}
+
+module.exports = isAbsoluteURL;