Wt

I discovered another issue introduced by WT-13501, again by Commit 05e4064. Before, having an <a href="#new_path">link</a> element on a page https://domain.tld/deploy-path/path with enabled internal path encoding would become <a href="https://domain.tld/deploy-path/new_path">link</a>. With the changes introduced by commit 05e4064 it now becomes <a href="https://domain.tld/deploy-path/path#">link</a>. This does not happen during the initial rendering, but on subsequent renderings. Several examples for this behavior can easily be found in the Widget Gallery. While this does not impact the links newly added onclick handler, which properly changes the internal path, this does impact other browser functionality like opening the link in a new tab, creating a bookmark from it or simply copying it, since the links actual target is no longer present in the rendered HTML. As far as I can tell it only affects ajax sessions.

The changed behavior is caused by the url = "#"; command in line 95 in RefEncoder.c. Initial tests show that removing that line seems to solve the issue - unless that change is required for some other functionality, that I am not aware of, of course. It would be nice if you could look into that. :)

Best regards
Steven