Get anchor from URI

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This isn’t possible as clients don’t send the “anchor part” to the server

As an example, here’s the exact request that Chrome generated after submitting http://example.com/#foobar (recorded using Wireshark):

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.223.11 Safari/532.3
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
If-None-Match: "b300b4-1b6-4059a80bfd280"
If-Modified-Since: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:24:10 GMT

See, no #foobar. So there’s no way a server application can read it.

You could do some JavaScript magic to store the anchor in a cookie or in a hidden input field or whatever voodoo you’re into. But it won’t ever work for requests that don’t originate from your own sites. It’s simpler to make whatever you need on the server part of the query string and use the anchor only for JavaScript-only tasks – or use it to navigate inside a simple HTML document – but that’s so 90s ;).

Here’s the important part from the mentioned RFC 1808:

Note that the fragment identifier (and the “#” that precedes it) is
not considered part of the URL. However, since it is commonly used
within the same string context as a URL, a parser must be able to
recognize the fragment when it is present and set it aside as part of
the parsing process.

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