On my server (some apache version), the data between the executable path and the first '?' are passed in the environment variable PATH_INFO. The script can then do whatever it wants with this information.

Here's a little script that proved useful for debugging where different sorts of information is presented to a script 

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict; 
use warnings;
use HTML::Entities;

print <<EOF; 
Content-type: text/html

<html><head>
<title>Environment variables and POSTed data</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> POSTed input data :
<blockquote>
EOF

print encode_entities $_ while (<>); 

print <<EOF;
</blockquote>
</p>
<form method="post" action="$ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}">
<input name="box1" value="value1"/>
<input type="submit" value="Send some data"/>
</form>
<p> Environment: </p>
<table border="1">
EOF

foreach my $v (sort keys %ENV) {
  print qq.<tr><td>$v</td><td><tt>., 
        encode_entities($ENV{$v}), qq.</tt></td></tr>\n.; 
}

print <<EOF;
</table>
<p> source code for this page: 
<blockquote>
EOF
 
unless (seek DATA,0,0) {
  print "couldn't read myself\n" 
} else {
  print "<pre>";
  print encode_entities $_ while (<DATA>); 
  print "</pre>";
}

print <<EOF;
</blockquote>
</p>
</body>
</html>
EOF

__DATA__

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in thread Please explain this url by manishrathi

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