On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Diwakar Shetty wrote: > > I could understand the use of "&" in URL for HTTP requests > "&" separates the <name>=<value> pair > > However, what is the use of ";" in URLS ?
Some people use the semicolon in static links to CGI scripts instead of the ampersand so that they don't have to escape the ampersand in attributes (e.g. in <a href="..."> in HTML). Other than that' it means nothing (as far as I know). -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
