Comments on: IE Redirect Bug with Dynamic Location Hash

By: Max

Max — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:57:54 +0000

and the redirect
Redirect 301 /test/ /test/test.htm#123

By: Max

Max — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:56:21 +0000

see post before, the blog removed the code section…

html
head
meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=utf-8″
/head
body
script
window.location.hash = “”;
/script
/body
/html

By: Max

Max — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:53:56 +0000

Hi,

have you ever tried to think about one of your first html lines could be the reason for this bug?!
I have spend some hours debugging this issue and figured out that it has to do with the encoding meta tag. The utf-8 / utf-16 encoding messes up in this tricky constellation.


window.location.hash = '';

There are 3 solutions so far:
1. you change the charset=utf-8 to iso-8859-1 or utf-32 on your static page
2. you are on the server side and set the header(‘Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8)
3. the smoothest solution for me is on Apache: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 (there is an IIS alternative as well)

Don’t ask me, ask IE

By: smccabe

smccabe — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:04:29 +0000

Adding my thanks, this bug was owning me for a while until I found your article. Stupid IE!

By: scinos

scinos — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:27:01 +0000

Sorry, my previous comment has a typo. It should read “var a = ‘something’;”

By: scinos

scinos — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:26:09 +0000

I’ve found a related bug in IE8 (maybe in IE7, not in IE6).

Sometimes, this code displays the alert:

var a = ;
document.location.hash=a;
if (document.location.hash != a) {
alert (“FAIL!”);
}

In that case, the page also get redirected to document.location.href without a hash. Very weird.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:31:14 +0000

you can add IE8 to this too

By: ethaniel

ethaniel — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:32:25 +0000

Dude,thanks alot. I wasted several days trying to figure this out.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:38:50 +0000

i found a related bug.

in server side a.aspx :

Response.Redirect(“test.aspx?v=123#a”);

in test.aspx:

Request["v"] is “123#a”

but Request["v"] should be “123″

it only exists on IE6. IE7 and Firefox are OK.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:38:26 +0000

i found a related bug.

in server side a.aspx :

Response.Redirect(“test.aspx?v=123#a”);

in test.aspx:

Request["url"] is “123#a”

but Request["url"] should be “123″

it only exists on IE6. IE7 and Firefox are OK.