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[Hans Zaunere]

> > I tried this myself, with no luck.
> >
> > I passed ?foo=bar#tomfrag to a file with a phpinfo call, and the
> > fragment never appears. Weird.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#media-type-fragid
> 
> Interpretation of the fragment identifier is performed solely by the
> agent that dereferences a URI; the fragment identifier is not passed
> to other systems during the process of retrieval. This means that some
> intermediaries in Web architecture (such as proxies) have no
> interaction with fragment identifiers and that redirection (in HTTP
> [RFC2616], for example) does not account for fragments.

Well heck - that covers it.  So, when rewriting URLs - for paging for example - there's no way to keep the fragment.

I suppose, if it really mattered so much, someone could write a JS snippet that would call ahead to the web server, which would track via the user's session, but that's a lot of work just for a fragment.

H