How can I get rid of the hash character in a URL?

Problem

How do you get rid of the # hash sign (also known as the number sign or pound sign) in a URL’s query string?

Asked by Muhammad Hewedy

Solution #1

Encoding at a percentage. Substitute percent 23 for the hash.

Answered by Robert Tupelo-Schneck

Post is based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5007352/how-to-escape-hash-character-in-url