In the message "Re: POST/GET and URL confusion", dated 2008-10-14,
Aron Roberts wrote:
In Richardson and Ruby's book, RESTful Web Services - also
mentioned in Richard Hoberman's post earlier today - a colon or
semicolon is recommended as a delimiter between value pairs in a
URI; e.g.
That should have stated "a *comma* or semicolon is recommended," as
is correctly mentioned in the continuation below.
The authors suggest using a comma where the ordering of the values
matters (e.g. as in the case where, by either convention or
specification, latitude is always written first, then longitude),
and a semicolon where ordering doesn't matter.
Aron
