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1. dosa
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi

   I have a variant of
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/74461

   Seen on Wordpress 2.0.5, Apache 1.3.33, PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0.24a
   and on Wordpress 2.0.4, Apache 1.3.37, PHP 4.4.4, MySQL 5.0.24.

   All my pages are being served fine & I wouldn't know of any problem except that I used curl to resolve another issue. I discovered that URLs ending with a page anchor (hope that's the term) such as #comments are returned with a 404 HTTP header, and the same URL without the #comments is returned as 200 as it should be. The named anchors do exist in the page and are found by the browser.

   I'm using permalinks such as /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

   The sites are on internal servers so can't pass out eg links, sorry.

   I'd be grateful for any thoughts, thanks.

2. dosa
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ok, I'll reply since nobody else has! ;-)

   I misreported the problem: when I was getting 404s in curl they were indeed true 404s, with my page-not-found template being returned. The problem seems to lie in how the command line utility curl does its HTTP request:

   If I want URI:

   http://blah.com/foo/#somewhere

   Browsers seem to just send:

   GET /foo/ HTTP/1.1

   (and deal with the #somewhere internally I presume) whereas Curl sends the full:

   GET /foo/#somewhere HTTP/1.1

   and this confuses wordpress, which can't then find any posts.

   Confused me too! Grrr.

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