Problem with redirection to anchors in Win-deployment

Hi,

I just wanted to share some experience we just had with java-handling of 
anchors and one of our customers, who against our advice insists on 
deploying on windows.

The situation: At one point in our application we want to redisplay a 
page after the user has clicked on one of several active images. The 
page should jump back to the clicked image.
The problems emerges from the following code where I don't know who the 
primary author was (assumed the "anchor" variable is set during the 
click on the image):

public void appendToResponse(WOResponse res, WOContext ctx) {
     if (anchor != null) {
         res.setHeader(ctxt.componentActionURL() + "#" + anchor, 	
                       "location");
         res.setHeader("text/html", "content-type");
         res.setHeader("0","content-length");
         res.setStatus(302);
         anchor = null;
     } else {
         super.appendToResponse(res, ctx);
     }
}

It seems, that the webserver does not handle this kind of redirect 
correct, the url and header information shows the componentActionURL 
doubled which leads to a session-restoration error instead of the wanted 
page-reload.

I know nothing about webserver configuration, but there is a better 
solution for this: just put this javascript at the bottom of the page:

<script language="javascript">
     document.location='#<webobject name="StringAnchor"></webobject>';
</script>

and in wod:

StringAnchor: WOString { value=anchor; }

and forget the redirect!

Susanne
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