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   infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:46:45 JST infinite love ⴳ

   #TIL the query component of a URI is actually completely opaque. There is no such thing as a "query parameter" defined in any spec that I can find -- the use of ampersands to delimit such "parameters" is purely conventional!

   At some point (HTML4), the recommendation was to use *semicolons* instead: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

   There is even a line of argument that says that query parameters are a misfeature and antipattern. Any "parameter" should be passed along with the request itself, not the URI

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:46:45 JST Rich Felker

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     @trwnh Unless I'm mistaken it's part of the CGI spec not URI spec.