Link to anchor in swf / page reload

Hi
I want to link to a frame label from html text below my swf.
For example:
<a href="Maps.aspx#bostonmap">Vew the Boston map</a></p>
I want that to refresh the page and then jump to the frame "bostonmap" when i click the link. Right now, when I click it, the url changes but the page does not reload. Is there a way to force the reload?
Thanks

This is not really true that you could only do this in Javascript. You could do this in many languages like PHP as well, where you would make the link to yourpage.php?part=anchorname and that would force a page reload, then you could test the variable name and redirect with PHP to yourpage.php#anchorname.
There are tons of ways you could do this. I would highly recommend staying away from anything that forces a user to have javascript enabled, and handle it with some server side language, that you know will not fail in this instance.
My 2 cents,
Jeremy

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