url syntax and tomcat

[Miles Poindexter]

I'm involved with a NISO standards activity called OpenURL.

Where is there a specification on the query syntax assumed for use by
the getParameter method of ServletRequest in the servlet API?

For example, in ServletExec and Tomcat, I observe that query parameters after
"&&" are ignored; the draft OpenURL specification uses that as an
item delimiter.

Example:

http://my.linkbaton.com/isbn/156592391X?x=y&&for=me

the "for" parameter is invisible to getParameter in servletExec

I assume that's a bug, but in the absence of a syntax spec, it's not
clear what it's supposed to do.

another example: is it specified anywhere that for
http://my.linkbaton.com/isbn/156592391X?x=y&x=z

the result of getParameter("x") should be {"y","z"} rather than {"z","y" }??

if I get an enumeration of Parameter names, is there any information
in the order returned?

- miles
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