Missing anchor # from redirect

From what I can determine, anchor delimiters are not passed through from the browser on requests, they are used in responses to tell the browser if it should jump to an anchor tag in the response content. I ran a trace with HttpWatch to verify this and here's what showed up

 

 

Browser Request: http://xpbert/foo/bartag1

 

 

HttpWatch trace:

 

(Request-Line): GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1

 

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

 

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

 

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

 

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

 

Connection: keep-alive

 

Host: xpbert

 

Keep-Alive: 300

 

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

 

 

 

You'll see the GET request from the browser is "/foo/bar", not "/foo/bartag1". So it seems the browser is stripping off the anchor which means it wouldn't be getting to your backend server anyway.

 

 

-Joe