including anchor (#) with cgi parameters?

[willg at bluesock.org (will)]

I remember having this problem when working on the international sites at 
Ingram.  As I recall, the specifications for things state that the # is 
not "part of the url" but rather a "fragment" and has to go at the 
very end.  So a correct url would be:

   http://www.me.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?param=2#place

The RFC in question might be this one--I know it covers URLs, but I don't 
recall if there's a more recent RFC that takes precedence:

   http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1808.txt


I don't recall whether we got this to work.  We were using JSPs under 
ServletExec and IE 5.0/5.5 on Win32 platforms.  I do know that we had 
differing results with different browsers and wouldn't be surprised if 
different browser/platform/version/patch-level combinations affected 
whether the #place is handled or not.

Hope that helps--

/will


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Peter R. Wood - Lists wrote:

> This is a fairly generic web question. If I've got a page that was
> generated by coming to a URL like:
> 
> http://www.me.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?param=2
> 
> Is there a way to include an anchor in the URL (#place) to direct the
> browser to a specific place within the resulting page? I know that this
> works:
> 
> 	http://www.me.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi#place
> 
> But that doesn't allow for any parameters. I have tried this:
> 
> 	http://www.me.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi#place?param=2
> 
> But the script ignores the parameters. And I've tried:
> 
> 	http://www.me.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?param=2#place
> 
> But there it seems to ignore the anchor.
> 
> Is there a way to do this? Or is it (as Ralph Wiggum would say)
> un-possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
> 
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