A client SHOULD NOT send the fragment part of a URL to the server?

I agree, this makes sense. Servers should be able to handle and ignore it, but
clients should not be sending it at all either. The client I'm working on just
strips it out of any URL. It'd be nice to see this explained in the spec.

makeworld

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On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 4:29 PM, Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote:

> On 09-Jun-2020 21:26, solderpunk wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:20:12PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:
> >
> > > Aha! I see what you mean now. Yes, this could be handled solely on 
the client side. Thanks for the clarification.
> > > Still, no harm down if the fragment hit the server, right? Or?
> >
> > I guess robust servers should tolerate this without throwing an error.
> > Cheers,
> > Solderpunk
>
> Yes servers should definitely ignore any such fragment, which should
> not be sent to the server.
>
> The query part of the URI is for server processing, the fragment is
> always client side only as far as I understand it.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier
>
> -   L

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