Posted by keeper on 01/21/07 20:23

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thats how ive always done it, and ve never had problems with it on
firefox or any other browser, in ISO-9958-1 or UTF-8. maybe you have
your # in teh wrong element ?

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit proden@planet.nl:
>
> > I have a website with some name anchors in it, like <a
> > href="#mp3">Mp3s</a>
>
> That's not a name anchor. It's a link that refers to an element in the same
> document using a fragment identifier, which _might_ be defined using a name
> anchor (<a name=...>...</a>) or using an id="..." attribute.
>
> > The problem is that my error reporting system with a certain
> > regularity reports about people trying to reach for example:
> > http://www.mysite.com/mydir/cmb.htm%23mp3.
>
> Really? So where is the URL of your site? I am actually rather sure that you
> gave a forged URL. Yes, it's forged, because it's intentionally wrong,
> incorrect by fabrication. The URL http://www.mysite.com/mydir/cmb.htm gives
> a 404 error message, but it's a URL under control of the mysite.com domain.
>
> If you don't want to reveal the real URL, i.e. if you don't want to be
> helped, at least use the .example convention to indicate a fictitious URL
> that is guaranteed not to coincide with a real URL.
>
> > As the referring page
> > mentioned is the page itself and the browser mentioned is just IE or
> > Mozilla I am wondering what is causing this problem.
>
> The odds are that you have a badly written link on your page.
>
> > One of the options is that it might have to do with my charset utf-8.
>
> The character "#" has the same representation in UTF-8 as in ASCII, ISO 8859
> encodings, and many more. But of course if your page isn't _actually_ UTF-8
> encoded though declared to be, or vice versa, which is not very uncommon,
> anything may happen.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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