A client SHOULD NOT send the fragment part of a URL to the server?

Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Tue Jun 9 21:29:20 BST 2020



On 09-Jun-2020 21:26, solderpunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:20:12PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:
>
>> Aha! I see what you mean now. Yes, this could be handled solely on the client side. Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> Still, no harm down if the fragment hit the server, right? Or?
>>
> I guess robust servers *should* tolerate this without throwing an error.
>
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk

Yes servers should definitely ignore any such fragment, which should 
*not* be sent to the server.

The query part of the URI is for server processing, the fragment is 
always client side only as far as I understand it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier

  - L


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