diff --git a/UPGRADING.md b/UPGRADING.md
index dd5b82ee..1a489d91 100644
--- a/UPGRADING.md
+++ b/UPGRADING.md
@@ -1034,6 +1034,13 @@ have dropped since, until the process restarted.
 wrapping `client.ErrTrustChainExpired`. A flow already begun completes
 as before.
 
+From v0.69.0 every method that contacts or trusts the OP refuses once
+the chain has expired, including those that complete a flow already
+begun (`HandleAuthorizationResponse`, `ExchangeCode`,
+`PollBackchannelAuthentication`), and the error is a `*client.Error`
+with code `client.ErrorTrustChainExpired`, still wrapping
+`client.ErrTrustChainExpired`.
+
 **What to change:** resolve the chain again and build a new Client
 before it expires, for example on a timer from the new
 `Client.TrustChainExpiresAt`:
diff --git a/internal/federation/claims_validation.go b/internal/federation/claims_validation.go
index bdb80a95..4d225ea6 100644
--- a/internal/federation/claims_validation.go
+++ b/internal/federation/claims_validation.go
@@ -132,10 +132,11 @@ func parseSourceEndpoint(raw json.RawMessage) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // isHTTPSURL reports whether s is an absolute https URL with a host and
-// no fragment.
+// no fragment, not even an empty one: url.Parse drops a bare "#", so
+// it's looked for in s itself.
 func isHTTPSURL(s string) bool {
 	u, err := url.Parse(s)
-	return err == nil && u.Scheme == "https" && u.Host != "" && u.Fragment == "" && !strings.ContainsAny(s, " \t\r\n")
+	return err == nil && u.Scheme == "https" && u.Host != "" && !strings.ContainsAny(s, "# \t\r\n")
 }
 
 // maxJSONDepth bounds how deeply refuseDuplicateMembers descends; the
diff --git a/internal/federation/claims_validation_test.go b/internal/federation/claims_validation_test.go
index f74122f0..672c439c 100644
--- a/internal/federation/claims_validation_test.go
+++ b/internal/federation/claims_validation_test.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ func TestParseRefusesStatementsSection32Rejects(t *testing.T) {
 		"§3.1.2 trust_anchor_hints in an EC":           {ec, `"trust_anchor_hints":["https://ta.example.org"]`, false},
 		"§3.1.2 authority_hints empty":                 {ec, `"authority_hints":[]`, true},
 		"§3.1.2 authority_hints not an Entity ID":      {ec, `"authority_hints":["not a url"]`, true},
+		"§3.1.2 authority_hints empty fragment":        {ec, `"authority_hints":["https://ia.example.org#"]`, true},
 		"§3.1.3 metadata_policy_crit empty":            {ss, `"metadata_policy_crit":[]`, true},
 		"§3.1.3 metadata_policy_crit listed":           {ss, `"metadata_policy_crit":["regexp"]`, false},
 		"§5 null entity-type metadata":                 {ec, `"metadata":{"openid_relying_party":null}`, true},
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ func TestParseRefusesStatementsSection32Rejects(t *testing.T) {
 		"§5 empty entity-type metadata":                {ec, `"metadata":{"openid_relying_party":{}}`, false},
 		"§3.2 source_endpoint not a URL":               {ss, `"source_endpoint":"not a url"`, true},
 		"§3.2 source_endpoint not https":               {ss, `"source_endpoint":"http://a.example.org/fetch"`, true},
+		"§3.2 source_endpoint empty fragment":          {ss, `"source_endpoint":"https://a.example.org/fetch#"`, true},
 		"§3.2 source_endpoint https":                   {ss, `"source_endpoint":"https://a.example.org/fetch"`, false},
 		"§6.1.2 duplicate metadata_policy parameter":   {ss, `"metadata_policy":{"openid_relying_party":{"scope":{"value":"a"},"scope":{"value":"b"}}}`, true},
 		"§6.1.2 duplicate metadata_policy operator":    {ss, `"metadata_policy":{"openid_relying_party":{"scope":{"value":"a","value":"b"}}}`, true},