[10634] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Using $ for CGI script arguments?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simone Demmel)
Tue Feb 18 06:20:57 1997
From: neko@greenie.muc.de (Simone Demmel)
To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr (Francois Pottier)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:14:30 +0100
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, fpottier@pauillac.inria.fr
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970218115017.fpottier@pauillac.inria.fr> from Francois Pottier at "Feb 18, 97 11:50:17 am"
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Hi,
Francois Pottier wrote:
[...]
> RFC 2068 (the HTTP/1.1 standard) says that at the end of the path, we
[...]
> http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname;args?query
[..but..]
> http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname$args?query
[...]
> So, my question is, what's the consensus? What are the respective
> roles of the semicolon and of the dollar signs? Can they be used
> interchangeably, or do they have different meanings? Should my parser
> look out for both of them, and if so, in what order? etc.
Good question, here are some more Possibilities:
http://myserver.mydomain/path/info.html#5 (<a name>-Links in html-Files)
http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname?arg1=x&arg2=y
The last one (?arg=x&arg=...) seems to be standard for GET, I've never
seen something different (implemented)
neko
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