Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?

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Robin Rodricks picture Robin Rodricks · Jun 2, 2009 · Viewed 218.1k times · Source

Assuming a URL of:

www.example.com/?val=1#part2

PHP can read the request variables val1 using the GET array.

Is the hash value part2 also readable? Or is this only upto the browser and JavaScript?

Answer

Ionuț G. Stan picture Ionuț G. Stan · Jun 2, 2009

The main problem is that the browser won't even send a request with a fragment part. The fragment part is resolved right there in the browser. So it's reachable through JavaScript.

Anyway, you could parse a URL into bits, including the fragment part, using parse_url(), but it's obviously not your case.

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