URL problem with Hash symbol

[Esther Kak]

I have a JSP page which has a ahref="http://www.abcXXXX.com/privacy.jsp#aaa"

Problem: When I click on the ahref, everything from # is stripped off in the URL

Try 1: Encoded # with %23 - did not work

Try 2: Used Java URL encoder class to encode

String testURL = "http://www.abcXXXX.com/privacy.jsp"+URLEncoder.encode("#aaa");

Try 1 & 2 are not working. Is there are way around to make this work.

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