Response to unknown query parameter

• From: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
• Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:49:50 +0100
• To: "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <46D3FDCE.6000709@musc.edu>

Hi, Tag members,

I found the common practice of web server is to ignore the unknown query 
parameter.

For instance,

http://www.w3.org/?foo=bar

response the same as

http://www.w3.org

But should it be a 404 instead?

I think if this behavior is not specified, it will have serious 
consequence because one resource can in fact be identified by many 
URIs.  Should a recommendation be made, or there is already one that I 
am not aware of, regarding the response to unknown query parameter?

Xiaoshu

Received on Tuesday, 28 August 2007 10:50:38 UTC