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#accTry 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 thehash 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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