Glen Daniels wrote:
OK, maybe we didn't decide yet then. :)
Yeah .. we debated but then dropped the thing off :(.
I really don't like /_, because it a) looks weird (it doesn't seem as clear at a glance that "r1/_tags" is *about* "r1" instead of something under r1), and b) makes our path parsing code more complex.
So, why did we dismiss "?tags"?? That seems better to me .. maybe "?$tags" to indicate that some query params are special. I'd even go with "?_tags".
You don't like ";" because of Pete Lacey's warning about certain proxies?
Just doesn't feel good to me. No hard position.
I prefer ";" because I think it looks really natural and because there is a bunch of precedent for using it (I can dig that up again, but there are even specs which specify ; as a metadata separator). However, I'm OK with almost any single character that wouldn't normally show up in filenames.... ">", "$", "~", etc.
Actually, ";" is a legal param separator for query params and even recommended by HTML4 apparently. While there'd be no syntactic problem, I believe we could have impl issues if we have two semicolons meaning different things. (It turns out that the servlet API impls do not properly support ";" as a separator yet.)
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