Anchor support

[adumont]

More a question than an issue per se.

My index.md reads like this:

---
[...]
redirect_from:
  - /projects/
---

Redirect work great.

Say I have an anchor <a name="test"></a> in index.md, I'd expect siteurl/projects#test to redirect to siteurl/#test, but instead I'm redirected to siteurl/. (anchor is lost). Is there any way to address that?

(my site is https://adumont.github.io/projects/ in case you want to see source see behaviour).

https://adumont.github.io/#tplink-cloud-api opens fine (no redirect)
But https://adumont.github.io/projects#tplink-cloud-api redirects to https://adumont.github.io/, loosing the anchor :(

[satyanash]

Fragment identifiers like #test in your example are never sent in the HTTP request to the server[1]. Thus any response from the server (be it static or dynamic) cannot directly account for any fragments present in the request URL.

However, you may be able to customize the redirect.html[2] template to perform only a client side javascript redirect that reads the window.location.hash and appends it to the destination URL, before redirecting.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-9.5
[2] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from/blob/master/lib/jekyll-redirect-from/redirect.html

[satyanash]

Would vote to close this issue now.

[adumont]

Thanks a lot @satyanash for the aclaration.