On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 01:29:12 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 01:16:22 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 22:27:35 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
The web server never sees anchors in URLs, so that would be
impossible.
I think it might be very possible, unless I'm missing
something[0]?
[0] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/flags.html#flag_ne
That example redirects *to* an anchor. Since the anchor part of
an URL is never sent to the server, the server has no way to
act upon it. It is only possible using JavaScript.
Quoting RFC 3986:
As such, the fragment identifier is not used in the
scheme-specific processing of a URI; instead, the fragment
identifier is separated from the rest of the URI prior to a
dereference, and thus the identifying information within the
fragment itself is dereferenced solely by the user agent,
regardless of the URI scheme. Although this separate handling
is often perceived to be a loss of information, particularly
for accurate redirection of references as resources move over
time, it also serves to prevent information providers from
denying reference authors the right to refer to information
within a resource selectively.
