Rewriting URI Fragment

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:09:08AM +0100, Sam Millar wrote:

> I have a Facebookesque AJAX URL system so that certain pages will
> dynamically reload data and update the location.hash parameter and make
> the URL become /old_path#/new_path
> 
> At the moment the only way I have been able to handle proper redirection
> of a page if loaded with a dynamic URL is an JavaScript redirect of the
> page once it has rendered (and of course this is the most slow method of
> doing this).
> 
> Is it possible to rewrite my requests that contain a URI fragment, at
> nginx level, so a request to www.example.com/ham#/bacon will receive a
> redirect to www.example.com/bacon ?

No.  Fragments aren't passed to server by browsers.

Maxim Dounin