Re: Use of ";" in URL for HTTP

9/5/2002 12:55:27 AM, Diwakar Shetty <diwakar.shetty@oracle.com> wrote:
> I could understand the use of "&" in URL for HTTP requests
>
>"&" separates the <name>=<value> pair
>
> However, what is the use of ";" in URLS for HTTP ?

Semicolon is just another valid character in the path component
of a URL - it has no special significance.  When the Web was
being invented, VMS was an important platform, and the semicolon 
was used in VMS file names, so making it a legal path name
component was important.

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Scott Lawrence                             
  <lawrence@world.std.com>

Received on Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:27:00 UTC