[9523] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: bug, or "feature"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Fri Dec 29 23:49:18 1995
To: sjk@amazon.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Shel Kaphan's message of Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:00:42 -0800 <199512300200.SAA27872@bert.amazon.com>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 20:40:49 PST
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> I've just discovered that with some popular browsers, including the
> latest from Netscape, if you do a GET on a URL with a fragment (an
> anchor, a "#something" on the end), and the server issues a redirect
> (302) so that a different document is fetched, then the browser will
> NOT seek to the anchor to the ultimately viewed document -- you end up
> staring at the beginning of the page.
I think it's a bug. I suppose this should be clarified in the next
revision of the URL documents.
