Spring Java jumping anchor via fragment-identifier redirects to homepage

Question

I've come across a strange problem in a Spring site where if you use jumping anchors, it redirects me to the homepage.

For example, I have code like this (simplified);

 <a href="#configuration"><spring:message code='configuration.tab' /></a>
 <a id="configuration" class="noHover"><spring:message code='configuration.tab' /></a>

However, when I click the link, my website redirects to my homepage with the jumping anchor suffixed;

http://localhost:8080/web/#configuration

I am thinking this is something to do with the Spring security, but I am not positive.

Has anyone seen this?

Why do you have to tags - and which one is the one you are talking about (a simple anchor #xxx sould not trigger the browser to send a request, so it is not likely that this is a serverside (springsecurity) related problem) — Ralph, Nov 15 '15 at 10:30
I simplified the code base, there is a large amount of text between those two anchors. The first one is part of a table of contents and should jump to the configuration section within the page. This works great in plain html. — gwnp, Nov 15 '15 at 14:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '15 at 01:31

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I finally found the cause, I had set the following in my header;

<base href="${ctx}/" >

Once I removed this code, my jumping anchors started to work properly again via the fragment-identifier. I had done this earlier in the project for convenience.

answered Nov 17 '15 at 01:31

gwnp

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