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Hi All!

How do you get the bookmark on the end of a url with ASP?

For example, this page from 4GuysFromRolla:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/...les.asp#blobby

"blobby" doesn't pop up anywhere in Request.Variables..

The next question would be how can I add a bookmark in ASP too..

Rob

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:51:23 +1000, Robert Mark Bram
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>How do you get the bookmark on the end of a url with ASP?
>
>For example, this page from 4GuysFromRolla:
>http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/...les.asp#blobby
>
>"blobby" doesn't pop up anywhere in Request.Variables..

That's not a bookmark, it;'s a "fragment identifer".

In your ASP, get the whole URL and then slice the string up yourself.
Use a regex to look at characters after the hash.


_IF_ the user has navigated from an internal link on the page
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/servervariables.asp
to
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/...les.asp#blobby

then the browser probably won't re-load the page and the server never
gets to see this request.

If they'd arrived there from the page
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/foo.htm
then the server would see the full request.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for your reply - Andy and Miranda too!

> > How do you get the bookmark on the end of a url with ASP?

> If the HTTP client submits the fragment identifier to the server, the
> client is broken - at least that's my interpretation of RFC1630, page
> 13. ASP (or any other server-side language) is unable to retrieve the
> anchor reference as it's not sent with the request to the server. Mind
> you, it is a handy way to block dumb web crawlers that try to send it
> anyway.

This answers my question. Oh well. I will find a different way.
Thank you very much!

Rob