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httplanguage-agnosticuri-fragment

Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?

Assuming a URL of:

www.example.com/?val=1#part2

PHP can read the request variables val1 using the GET array.

Is the hash value part2 also readable? Or is this only upto the browser and JavaScript?

Solution

  • The main problem is that the browser won't even send a request with a fragment part. The fragment part is resolved right there in the browser. So it's reachable through JavaScript.

    Anyway, you could parse a URL into bits, including the fragment part, using parse_url(), but it's obviously not your case.