Query String appended to URL

[Oliver Block]

Hello,

sometimes one can see that on some site there are query strings appended to
a URL even if the requested document is of .html form. What sense does that
make? I couldn't find anything in the w3 recs.

Best Regards,

Oliver

[Dan]

Oliver Block wrote:

sometimes one can see that on some site there are query strings appended to
a URL even if the requested document is of .html form. What sense does that
make? I couldn't find anything in the w3 recs.

The URI syntax standards make no distinction between "HTML form"
documents or any other type; query strings are legal in all cases. How
they're actually used depends on what's at the server end to use them;
just because a URI ends in ".html" doesn't mean that it's not being
processed by some server-side scripting language that might make use of
query strings; it depends on how the server is configured. Client-side
scripts such as JavaScript may also make use of these strings.

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Dan

[Jim Moe]

Oliver Block wrote:

sometimes one can see that on some site there are query strings appended to
a URL even if the requested document is of .html form. What sense does that
make? I couldn't find anything in the w3 recs.

W3 has nothing to do with URI syntax. Those are defined by RFCs (Request
For Comment).
See RFC2396 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html>.

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