in reply to Re^2: Meaning of part of a URL
in thread Meaning of part of a URL

You are right, but strictly speaking it is then not a parameter of the GET call and your server must "know" that some of the info is in the path and not in the parameter list.

Try to drop the '?' in the above perlmonks URL and see what I mean.

I wonder, is '&' even allowed as part of a path?

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