Robert,
Your first quote simply states that the characters after the hash sign
cannot be extracted by mod_rewrite. Nothing else. That guide even gives
you a workaround.
The second link can be circumvented with the [NE] flag. In any case, try
this simple ruleset on your server (directly in one of your vhosts, or
in the main configuration, if you don't have vhosts):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/foo http://www.google.com/#name_of_anchor
It works with FF, IE, Konq, and many more browsers.
Your 'does not work' claim is dubious at best. How about you give us a
link to a page where the rewriting takes place, and we'll try to open it
with Safari from here?
Frank
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Hi Frank,
I'm not trying to be dense or contentious; I don't understand why this
is working with all browsers except Safari. I do understand that it
shouldn't work at all since I've now found:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html
"The Apache kernels URL escape function also escapes anchors, i.e.
URLs like "url#anchor". You cannot use this directly on redirects with
mod_rewrite because the uri_escape() function of Apache would also
escape the hash character."
Even redirecting to an anchor is problematic:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html#redirectanchors
"By default, redirecting to an HTML anchor doesn't work, because
mod_rewrite escapes the # character, turning it into %23. This, in
turn, breaks the redirection."
So I understand why it doesn't work with Safari. Why does it work with
other browsers?
Best,
Robert
Frank Gingras wrote:
Robert,
"May be"? I told you now three times that it cannot be captured. Were
you listening to me?
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Well, here's the example:
http://www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/schedules/092/regrules/all.html#acc
Try this with several browsers and you'll find that it only fails to
pass the anchor on Safari....
Anyhow, I'm afraid that I am trying to capture the anchor and pass
it through to the redirected URL so I may be out of luck.
Thanks,
Robert
Frank Gingras wrote:
Robert,
You CAN enter the URL directly in a browser, and the page 'should'
scroll down to the anchor (<a name='foo'>). A sample URL would be:
http://hostname/foo#bar.
Now, a rule is allowed to redirect to an anchor. It simply cannot
match or capture it.
To address your issue with Safari, I have several co-workers that
use it, and they never reported that issue.
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Thanks Frank,
What I'm hearing is that the redirection is using a RegEx and that
the
hash character cannot be a player. Furthermore, the fact that this
works on most browsers (but fails on Safari) is due to them being not
strictly compliant.
Is that about it?
Thanks,
Robert
Frank Gingras wrote:
Hello Robert,
Actually, the # in the URI indicates an anchor, not a comment. They
cannot be matched on, nor captured.
Frank
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