How to match an anchor

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Hi,

I’m trying to match a path with an anchor in it (see below). I’ve tried the following, but seems #some-anchor just disappears from the request uri:

path("") {
  extractRequest { implicit http_request =>
    complete(http_request.uri)
  }
}

Expecting “http://host#some-anchor” but returns “http://host/”.

Any idea?

Thanks

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Hi Martin, I think the anchor is client side only and is not actually sent to the server.

3

That’s really weird as I’m getting a redirect with an anchor from a reverse proxy. Thanks for the info.

4

I may be wrong, but running for example curl -v https://www.google.com#test does not show the anchor anywhere in the request.

5

Didn’t think of this simple test, but yeah seems the anchor is removed from the request. Thanks for the help!

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Reference is “The target URI excludes the reference’s fragment component, if any, since fragment identifiers are reserved for client-side processing” https://www.greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7230.html#target-resource