IE appends garbage to url

[NuJoizey]

this problem only exists in IE and no other browser as far as I can determine:

the href in the html points has this:

http://www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?id=1122

but then in IE when the user clicks it, somehow the resulting url is:

http://www.mysite.org/mypage.aspx?id=1122#show=mypage.aspx%5Qid%2W1122

This is a problem because the things on the page that rely on the querystring break.

This could be originating from code somewhere else on the site, but I've spent a day looking for it to know avail.

The wierd thing is that when I refresh the page, it loads just fine and all of the controls resurrect themselves, even though the URL stays the same.

Can someone give me a clue as to what might be going on and where I might look to resolve this?

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[feherke]

Hi

You mean the #show... part actually arrives to the server ? I never met ( and neither heard about ) a browser that sent that.

If it appears to be sent, I suspect the # is URLencoded, so there is actually /mypage.aspx?id=1122[red]%23[/red]show=mypage.aspx%5Qid%2W1122. That could mean, JavaScript encoded the wrong string or in wrong moment. Or just should use [tt]encodeURI()[/tt] instead of [tt]escape()[/tt]. But this is hard to guess without seeing that page.


Feherke.

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[NuJoizey]

well, that's just it, I have no idea where it came from. How could I determine if it is sent, and if so then how might I trace it back to where or what kind of code it was sent from?

something is writing #show=mypage.aspx%5Qid%2W1122 to the url. but i have no idea what it is or where its coming from, or why it only happens in IE.

I tried searching my site for a "Qid" but that came up with an impractical amount of hits to sort thru manually, and 2W1122 search didn't yield anything, because it is probably auto generated from the code somewhere.

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[NuJoizey]

on thing i noticed, that if I http request the url value on the onload event of my code-behind (i'm using ASP.NET framework with C#), and write it to the screen it only shows:

http://www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?id=1122

I tried to write a function using .NET http objects/methods that would strip off the garbage and rewrite the url, but the .NET code I wrote doesn't seem to see the garbage - and I wonder why?

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[feherke]

Hi

I would take a look at the web server's access log.


Feherke.

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[NuJoizey]

what specifically would i look for in there?

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[feherke]

Hi

what specifically would i look for in there?

If the request received by the server already contained the # part. A runaway rewrite made by the server could also alter the URL in that way.


Feherke.

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