Forum Discussion

vindiW's avatar
vindiW
Former Employee
Jun 09, 2020
Solved

React routing on Edge

I use HashRouter in my React app ( hosted on IIS). Noticed that Edge browser somehow loses the hash path (#/rest of path) when it returns from the server after authentication. So user ends up on the ...
  • Eric_Lawrence's avatar
    Eric_Lawrence
    Jun 12, 2020

    Deleted - That's an impressive list of URL Fragment related issues, but none of them are likely relevant here.

    @vindiW - You can watch your network traffic to see what's going on, but the most likely explanation here is that this is related to behavior of your your authentication provider. In particular, if you have a URL fragment that goes through a set of HTTP/3xx redirects, that URL fragment is meant to be preserved, and it is, within modern browsers. However, if the server returns a HTTP/200 response (e.g. because it wants you to enter your credentials), then when it redirects back to the relying party website, that URL fragment is not automatically carried through.

    If you'd like, I can take a look [personal information removed by Mod] at a NetLog for you (https://textslashplain.com/2020/01/17/capture-network-logs-from-edge-and-chrome/) to confirm.

BarryWhite's avatar
BarryWhite
Copper Contributor
Dec 04, 2021

In general, this is not difficult if the company is working with a reliable developer. Therefore, when questions like https://www.ava.codes/posts/flutter-vs-react-native arise, there is always an opportunity to first get acquainted with the available information on the Internet, and then turn to a specialist for help in order to get an excellent result for work.

Resources