Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?

Question

Assuming a URL of:

www.example.com/?val=1#part2

PHP can read the request variables val1 using the GET array.

Is the ha

Answer 1

It is retrievable from Javascript - as window.location.hash. From there you could send it to the server with Ajax for example, or encode it and put it into URLs which can then be passed through to the server-side.