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Our app generates an email that includes a link with a hash fragment.
<a> tag), the URL is opened but mysteriously excludes the hash fragment.Here is the relevant code from our Rails app, if that helps:
mail(from: @message.from, to: @message.to, cc: @message.cc, bcc: @message.bcc, subject: @message.subject) do |format|
format.html { render text: @message.body_text }
end
Email message (truncated; using Twitter URLs in place of our app URLs, which follow a similar pattern):
Subject: Hello
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html>
<head>
<meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='content-type'>
<title>title</title>
</head>
<body>
<table id='message_body_template'>
<tr>
<td>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/cnn" title="" target="">Click here</a>
to learn more.</p>
<p>Plain text link: http://twitter.com/#!/cnn</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Click here opens the Twitter home page, while the plain text "link" opens CNN's Twitter page. Can anyone explain why?
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Yes, the problem is unrelated to what back-end you use. It appears that (frustratingly) some versions of Outlook strip the hash portion of URLs.
My solution was to email a modified version of the link without the hash, and then redirect it to where it's supposed to go.
When I had the same issue in Laravel + Backbone I performed the redirect using this code in routes.php (equivalent to routes.rb in Rails):
// Redirect /password-reset/XYZ to #/password-reset/XYZ
Route::get('/password-reset/{any}', function() {
$url = Request::url(); // Get full URL
$path = Request::path(); // Get portion of URL after the domain name
return Redirect::to(str_replace($path, "#", $url) . $path);
});
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