Issues with IE Redirect

[speedyone]

Hello again.

I have a new issue where they are trying to launch a new site. I have added the rewrites that work just great in Firefox but not in IE. Has anyone see or know a way to fix this.. Below is the rewite

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/redirect/launch/us$
RewriteRule .* http://www.mydomain.com/launch/li/#commercial [NE,R,L]

Any help would be great.

[g1smd]

The R flag makes this a 302 redirect, not a rewrite.

In that way does it "not work"?

[speedyone]

With or without the R it still produces the same result. It will not rewrite in IE. Well to be clear the rewrite works an you can see the correct result in fiddler however IE then strips the # out and it sends it to the base site under the swf file. We need to have the # for the movie to play.

[speedyone]

We could not seem to find a fix for this. SO we ended up changing the URL to avoid this.

[jdMorgan]

URL-fragments (delimited by "#") are handled client-side only. Some browsers can handle them in redirects, and some can't. Getting rid of the fragment was the correct solution for best cross-browser support.

Jim