window.location is an object?

Question

window.location = null; // But it redirects to http://example.com/null

is it possible to delete window.location?

I am writing a proxy and I want to make sure the the script inside the request url won't redirect to their page.

window.location = 'http://actual-urlexample.com';

My idea is to replace the window.location with our object so that we can control the above code for my proxy sever. I want to know only one thing: whether window.location is an object or not. How an event(new url is loading) occurring when we assigning a value to window.location ?

Answer 1

There're at least two obvious ways to find out:

• Your browser's JavaScript console:

   >>> typeof window.location "object" 

• Your favourite documentation :

  Returns a Location object , which contains information about the URL of the document and provides methods for changing that URL. You can also assign to this property to load another URL.

_{No offense but I'd like you see you overriding a builtin object if you even need to ask whether it's an object ;-P}

Edit: A little clarification—I suppose that technically speaking location is actually a property of the window object that contains a Location object.