Comments on: IE Redirect Bug with Dynamic Location Hash

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!

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

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

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.

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

you can add IE8 to this too

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

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

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.

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.

Bryce — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:59:30 +0000

Thanks. This just solved a bug I’ve been trying to fix for 3 days.