Telling Angular Js to ignore a specific route

I have set up my routing in Angular and all works fine:

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$routeProvider.
      when('/', { templateUrl: '/Home/Index' }).
      when('/User', { templateUrl: '/User/Index' });

However I now have an anchor tag to work as a logout button which will just redirect the user to /User/Logout, and logout will then log the user out and redirect them to the login page. So what I want is for angular js to just ignore this specific route and allow it to do a normal http redirect. This seems like something that should be really easy but I haven't been able to find a solution to the problem.

I know I could do a click event and do a window.location change in the click event but that seems like a really hacky way to do it.

Solution 1:

specify target="_self" in your anchors, so that angularjs does not rewrite URLs. See the discussion here: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location