Comment's get_absolute_url anchor doesn't work in Safair

[msm]

Maybe I'm wrong, but calling get_absolute_url on a comment is redirected to this:

16	urlpatterns += patterns('',
17	    url(r'^cr/(\d+)/(\w+)/$', 'django.views.defaults.shortcut', name='comments-url-redirect'),
18	)

In my case this somehow doesnt return the anchor of a comment (so that the browser directly jumps to the comment text (e.g. /slug-of-article/#c123

EDIT: We just need to document that the anchor is lost on redirect in Safari (works in Firefox and Chrome. IE status unkown).

[Jacob]

This works just fine for me.

[Idan Gazit]

This is a bug in webkit (aka Safari): ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24175

Web servers don't understand anchors because they're not part of proper URLs. Nominally, the browser is supposed to remember the named anchor, and reapply it after the redirect.

Safari doesn't behave correctly, and "forgets" the named anchor. In the case of the comments framework, this means that Safari browsers will end up on the right page but not at the anchor.

[Alex Gaynor]

Edited title, added a note to the description describing the new reality.