I've been searching for a workaround for this for a bit - and the only thing I have found is to use URL rewrites to read the "anchor". I found in the apache docs here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/advanced.html the following...
By default, redirecting to an HTML anchor doesn't work, because mod_rewrite escapes the # character, turning it into %23.
This, in turn, breaks the redirection.
Solution: Use the [NE] flag on the RewriteRule. NE stands for No
Escape.
Discussion: This technique will of course also work with other special
characters that mod_rewrite, by default, URL-encodes.
It may have other caveats and what not ... but I think that at least doing something with the # on the server is possible.
