Router without usage of #
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Description
OpenUI5 version:
all?
Proposal
Supply option to make the router work without the usage of '#' (URL fragment)
Currently, when navigating to a route the URL in the URL bar changes to <base_url>#/<route>. Also by simply entering the URL <base_url>#/<route> and hitting enter the corresponding navigation is internally triggered. It would be nice to have the option to simply use in both cases <base_url>/<route> or any other mechanism, that does not use #, i.e. the URL fragment.
Use case
I want to have an application with OAuth login (implicit grant flow) with a dedicated route/view/controller to handle the callback. The authorization server asks for the callback URL to be configured and forbids the usage of the symbol # in the callback URL, which makes sense as the implicit flow will pass the data back within the fragement of the URL, which would be appended after the # of my URL violating the URL anatomy.
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