I'm getting redirected from a website to my ktor server like that: <http://localhost:3000/callback#s...

# ktor

[Jan]

I'm getting redirected from a website to my ktor server like that:
http://localhost:3000/callback#somedata=somedata&amp;moredata=data
Is it possible with ktor to read these things after the #?

[Jan]

redirected in the browser

[Jan]

its an oauth2 redirect btw

[ephemient]

no, browsers do not send the URL fragment (#...) to the server

[Jan]

in browsers theres like this hashchange event thing

[ephemient]

yes, the client-side JS has access to the fragment/hash, but the server-side (ktor) does not

[ephemient]

it would be much more common to use ?... query parameters to forward information to the server. if you are stuck with # then you need custom JS code to send an additional request in non-fragment form to make it visible on the server

[Jan]

can't change that its with that #. Is it easy to do this custom js code / how would I do that?

[Big Chungus]

Hmm, maybe intercept this callback with your frontend and then invoke some backend api with hash converted to query string?

[Jan]

My problem is that this ktor server is really (or was) only there for receiving this data and doesn't have anything else. After it receives this data the server gets destroyed

[Jan]

In case anyone wondering I just created a static html file which gets these hashes and then makes a get request on my server route