- From: BearHeart/Bill Weinman <BearHeart@bearnet.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:46:04 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 07:22 am 12/19/95 +0100, Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote: > <a href="http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/converter.pl?word=run#V.3."> >this doesn't seem to work... > Am I missing something? Can't you make a reference to an arbitrary >point in a URL when the URL is a CGI script output? Does this only work >for precomputed (ie. static) documents? I thought the positioning took >place within the browser, anyway... Interesting question. What browser are you using? The "#" part of the URL (called the "fragment" part) is not actually part of the URL spec. HTML uses it as a branching directive, but different browsers may handle it differently. For example, I've never seen it specified that a browser has to keep the fragment when passing the "?" (query) part to the server for a CGI call. In fact, the browser may assume that everything after the "?" is for the CGI program and ignore the fragment all together. My opinion is that what you're expecting should be reasonable, but I wouldn't expect the browser authors to necessarily agree. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ * BearHeart / Bill Weinman * BearHeart@bearnet.com * * http://www.bearnet.com/ * * Author of The CGI Book: * http://www.bearnet.com/cgibook/ * * Trust everyone, but brand your cattle.
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