Forum OpenACS Development: MSIE redirection problem when using anchors

Hi all,

I've got a weird problem. When I ad_returnredirect to a page with a query variable and an anchor symbol, the anchor symbol gets appended to the value of the query variable. Only in MSIE6/Win. I'm posting to see if anyone else can reproduce this and to see what's the best fix, if it is reproducible.

File contents:

# /www/vktest.tcl
set id 1
ad_returnredirect vktest2?id=$id#blah



# /www/vktest2.tcl
ad_page_contract {
} {
  id
}
ns_return 200 text/plain "id=$id"

• Load http://kurup.org/vktest in Firefox and it works (id=1).
• Load it in MSIE6/Win and it fails (id=1#blah)

If you directly load http://kurup.org/vktest2?id=1#blah, that works. It's something about the redirect that causes MSIE6 to do the wrong thing.

I've found other posts about the subject: http://drupal.org/node/64437#comment-122226

Our equivalent of their solution would be to strip off the anchor in ad_page_contract.

Thanks Dave,

That's a much simpler fix.