I have a main perl/CGI page studded with action buttons that pull up detail pages with local edit forms. At the top of the main page there is already a TOC with links to the various sections. I would like to return from the detail edit pages to whence I came by returning to http://path-to-bigpage?#anchorname on form submit. So far, so clear?

My question is "What is the official CGI.pm technique for getting anchor names out of a CGI query?". Yes, I know that I could stick the anchor name in as a url param - or maybe get it from an environment variable but darn it, I want to be able to get it from the url where it was put in!!!

I tried:

my $q = new CGI;
my $url = $q->self_url();
[download]

This gave me everything BUT what I want! Is this an omission from CGI.pm, or does the official CGI spec. deter scripts from accessing #anchor info.???

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