Browser handling of URL's with '?' in them

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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Message-id: <9312082339.AA27477@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: Browser handling of URL's with '?' in them
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 18:39:51 -0500 (EST)
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Okay a number of folks of the NCSA For Macintosh browser have pointed out that
the Macintosh browser find's the first question mark in a URL and lops off
everything after it.  As a result of which my interactive weather stuff does
not work.  I havent been able to find any definitive word on this in the specs,
while Mosaic for X only remove's what it appends on subsequent queries (as I
think it should).  So the question is this, whats the definitive behavior for a
browser when it encounters a URL like:

http://somehost/somedoc?item

and is clickable (i.e ismap).  When someone enter's clicks should the resulting
URL be:

http://somehost/somedoc?item?x,y (as mosaic for X handles it)

or

http://somehost/somedoc?x,y

as in the case of the Mosaic for Mac's?

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/