I filed a bug with Apple a few weeks ago about Safari dropping # anchors on redirects. It is problem ID #7209106. It doesn't seem like you can link to their bugs, so I will describe it here:
When visiting a URL which causes a 301 redirect, the anchor at the end of the URL is discarded.
Steps to Reproduce:
Visit:
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Safari_4
Expected Results:
The redirect to en.wikipedia.org should result in Safari visiting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Safari_4
Actual Results:
Safari discards the anchor, and the resulting page is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)
Regression:
I did not try this with Safari 3 or earlier. But Chrome and Firefox both preserve the anchor.
Notes:
Here is the transaction with the server that is the redirect:
GET /wiki/Safari_(web_browser) HTTP/1.1
Host: wikipedia.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:12:23 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)
Content-Length: 257
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: keep-alive
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
Safari discards # anchor during 301 redirect
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OK. I can't believe you didn't figure that out sooner. You are a computer god!
omg! u r so smart! that is so kewl. can't wait to try it out on my ipod!