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How to Detect and Redirect from URL with Anchor Using mod_rewrite/htaccess?

I've seen a number of examples of the opposite, but I'm looking to go from an anchor/hash URL to a non-anchor URL, like so:

From: http://old.swfaddress-site.com/#/page/name
To:   http://new.html-site.com/page/name

None of the examples at http://karoshiethos.com/2008/07/25/handling-urlencoded-swfaddress-links-with-mod_rewrite/ have functioned for me. It sounds like REQUEST_URI has the /#/stuff in it, but neither me nor my Apache (2.0.54) see it.

Any ideas, past experiences or successes?

Solution

  • Anything after the # is a fragment, and will not be sent to the webserver. You cannot capture it at any point there, you'll have to use a client-sided approach to capture those.