Link vs anchor tags

[davadams97]

I am working on an application using Laravel and Inertia.js with Vue.js that requires a user authorization via the 3rd party service's authorization endpoint.

In my Inertia component, I use the Link element that navigates to the Laravel route which redirects to the 3rd party endpoint internally. I was getting CORSs errors until I tried the anchor tag which resolved the issue.

Can you explain why the Link component does not work?

[RobertBoes]

See the docs on external redirects: https://inertiajs.com/redirects#external-redirects
The Inertia <Link> component makes an XHR request and it expects an Inertia response. So you'd either have to use the external redirect, or if it's just an external URL, use a regular <a> tag

[joydeep-bhowmik]

use

return Inertia::location($url);

as mentioned in the docs