do browsers remove # in URL automatically?

Question

our front end guy needs to form a url containing the hash, (i.e, http://blah/#some-link.) when we hit this on the browser and inspect the http traffic using fiddler, we saw

Answer 1

Content after the # is only used on the client side, per HTTP specification. If you require that information on the server, you can either use a different separator, or you can submit it via ajax after the page has loaded by reading it on the client with javascript.