XF 1.2 Valid URLs with anchors returning 404

[AndyB]

Why are valid URLs with an anchor returning http status code 404?

The example link below will return a 404:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...roxying-and-change-logging.66592/#post-699985

The example link below will return a 200:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/exif-rotation-acp-searching-proxying-and-change-logging.66592/

You can use the following website to confirm:

http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

 

[Jeremy]

The tool probably can't handle the anchor properly. As long as you can navigate to it without issue, there is no issue.

 

[Chris D]

This is the response I get in my tests:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:44:29 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-control: private, max-age=0
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:44:29 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 22264
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

 

[Jeremy]

Thank you, Jeremy and Chris.
I'm using cURL in my add-on and it also shows a 404 when an anchor is included. What I have done is remove the anchor before sending it to cURL.

Its an internal issue with cURL, a simple Google search shows that.