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In the following post they use the term hash fragment. I am not quite sure what they mean by that. Are they referring to the text after a hash in a url?
e.g. www.someurl.com#somefragment
The blurb I am looking at in the article is below
In the implicit flow the access token is passed directly as a hash fragment (not as a URL parameter). One important thing about hash fragment is that, once you follow a link containing a hash fragment, only the browser is aware of the hash fragment. Browsers will pass the hash fragment directly to the destination webpage (the redirect URI / the client's webpage). Hash fragment have the following properties:
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A hash sign (#) in a URL is referred to as a fragment. Historically, URL fragments have been used to automatically set the browser's scroll position to a predefined location in the web page. In that sense, if a URL refers to a document, then the fragment refers to a specific subsection of that document.
In a URL, a hash mark, number sign, or pound sign ( # ) points a browser to a specific spot in a page or website. It is used to separate the URI of an object from a fragment identifier.
The fragment identifier introduced by a hash mark # is the optional last part of a URL for a document. It is typically used to identify a portion of that document.
A fragment is an internal page reference, sometimes called a named anchor. It usually appears at the end of a URL and begins with a hash (#) character followed by an identifier. It refers to a section within a web page. In HTML documents, the browser looks for an anchor tag with a name attribute matching the fragment.
Yes, you're correct. They refer to the URL part after the # character.
In example.com#state=dJfw&access_token=lkTyd234AsdF the hash fragment (fragment component) would be:
state=dJfw&access_token=lkTyd234AsdF
This is used by the OAuth2 implicit grant to deliver the response data. In the specification, the terminology used is either fragment component or fragment.
In contrast, the authorization code grant would deliver the information in the query part of the URL, example.com?state=asdTwe3SD&code=kjh56Sdgv.
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