Send POST data on redirect with JavaScript/jQuery? [duplicate]

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Basically what I want to do is send POST data when I change the window.location, as if a user has submitted a form and it went to a new page. I need to do it this way because I need to pass along a hidden URL, and I can’t simply place it in the URL as a GET for cosmetic reasons.

This is what I have at the moment, but it doesn’t send any POST data.

if(user has not voted) {

    window.location = 'http://example.com/vote/' + Username;

}

I know that you can send POST data with jQuery.post(), but I need it to be sent with the new window.location.

So to recap, I need to send api_url value via POST to http://example.com/vote/, while sending the user to the same page at the same time.

For future reference, I ended up doing the following:

if(user has not voted) {

    $('#inset_form').html('<form action="http://example.com/vote/' + Username + '" name="vote" method="post" style="display:none;"><input type="text" name="api_url" value="' + Return_URL + '" /></form>');

    document.forms['vote'].submit();

}

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