dosa

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.