Bug in Mediabot?

Parsing problem

[uncle_bob]

Just noticed that the Mediapartners GoogleBot has been requesting pages

mypage.html#topsection

Which gets it a 404 response as Apache thinks the page doesn't exist. (mypage.html does exists though and does have adsense on it.)

I thought #topsection was supposed to be implemented be browsers as a jump to the named link. I haven't seen any browsers requesting it, so I'm assuming this is a bug in Mediabot, parsing its page url.

[jomaxx]

Actually the way you have it written in the message, it should work. The "#" shouldn't cause the server to generate a 404 page.

However what I have seen in my logs is the Mediapartner bot changing the hash sign to "%23", and this does cause a 404 error. In other words,

mypage.html%23topsection

[jim_w]

>>Mediapartner bot changing ... "%23",

Yet another (G) bug? Rhetorical question.

[jomaxx]

A rather trivial bug, and it may be that it's the fault of some browser sending a faulty URL to AdSense in the first place. But it happens.