SID-01848: RedirectPlugin does not properly handle anchors

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.2	Perl version:
Category:	RedirectPlugin	Server OS:		Last update:	10 years ago

A redirect from redirecting page that points to an anchor in the target topic does not go to the anchor.

-- Joshua Tharp - 2013-12-31

Discussion and Answer

The RedirectPluginDev topic had a clue on this issue.

A redirect in the topic IRedirectToSomeWhere like:

%REDIRECT{"SomeWhere#SomeAnchor"}%

Forms a URL like: {omitted}/SomeWhere#SomeAnchor?redirectedfrom=IRedirectToSomeWhere

However the anchor should be the last thing like this: {omitted}/SomeWhere?redirectedfrom=IRedirectToSomeWhere#SomeAnchor

Plugin version 26175 lines 136-138:

TWiki::Func::redirectCgiQuery( $query,
    TWiki::Func::getViewUrl( $newWeb, $newTopic ) . $anchor
    . $q );

Changed to:

TWiki::Func::redirectCgiQuery( $query,
    TWiki::Func::getViewUrl( $newWeb, $newTopic ) . $q
    . $anchor );

-- Joshua Tharp - 2013-12-31

The above solution depends on SID-01846 to function properly.

-- Joshua Tharp - 2013-12-31

Thank you Joshua! I finally updated the RedirectPlugin with your fix.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-12-03

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