[Techtalk] Moving Websites: 301 Redirect

[Sheila Fenelon]

Gayathri Swaminathan wrote:
> 
> Clicking on an anchor like #artsec is handled by the browser. They don't
>>> result in a request being send back to the server, so your RewriteRule
>>> will never be invoked.
>>>
>>> Sheila
>>>
>>>
> 
> Appears from reading Flags, with [NE] flag available within mod_rewrite,
> anchors could be detected (
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_flags.html)
> 
> Testing it out to see if the theory applies. Will share findings.
> 

That's not for detecting anchors but allows rewrites *too* anchors. This
it the opposite of what Sue is trying to accomplish.

The example they give:

RewriteRule ^/anchor/(.+) /bigpage.html#$1 [NE,R]
The above example will redirect /anchor/xyz to /bigpage.html#xyz

Using [NE] keeps the # character from being converted to hex before
being sent to the browser. It's still up to the browser to detect and
interpret the anchor.

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Sheila Fenelon
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