Re: No specification for querystrings and fragment identifiers

> I was surprised that I could not find a specification within the HTML RFC's
> for what to do when you have a fragment identifier AND a querystring.  For
> example, which would be correct?:
> 
> 1) mypage.asp?myvar=value#myfragment
> 2) mypage.asp#myfragment?myvar=value

Both are "correct", but

 1) fragment id = "myfragment"
 2) fragmemt id = "myfragment?myvar=value"

Fragment id LOCAL to browser. It is never sent to the server. Keeping
that in mind, (2) does not much make sense (if you wanted the id to be
"myfragment".

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Markku Savela (msa@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Multimedia Systems, P.O.Box 1203,FIN-02044 VTT,http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/msa/

Received on Tuesday, 23 November 1999 04:14:04 UTC