URI have different regions that use different characters for different
things.
Within the 'path' portion of a URI, the ';' is used to separate 'parameters'
within a path segment.
I doubt this is widely supported by URI parsers (java code, servlets, php,
asp, etc.) - but I honestly don't know.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
--RFC2396--
The path may consist of a sequence of path segments separated by a
single slash "/" character. Within a path segment, the characters
"/", ";", "=", and "?" are reserved. Each path segment may include a
sequence of parameters, indicated by the semicolon ";" character.
The parameters are not significant to the parsing of relative
references.
--RFC2396--
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diwakar Shetty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Use of ";" in URL
>
>
>
> I could understand the use of "&" in URL for HTTP requests
> "&" separates the <name>=<value> pair
>
> However, what is the use of ";" in URLS ?
>
> Thanks
> Diwakar
>
