# Re: The use of "?" in URLs

John A. Kunze (jak@violet.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 10 Mar 1994 07:03:32 -0800

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    Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 07:03:32 -0800

    From: jak@violet.berkeley.edu (John A. Kunze)

    Message-Id: <199403101503.HAA00873@violet.berkeley.edu>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: The use of "?" in URLs

> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 16:41:18 -0600
> From: hoymand@joe.uwex.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
> ...
> In the HTML+ spec (28-oct-93, pp 34) I see a URL used to fill out forms.
> The search part looks like
>
> ?name.x=2&name.y=29
> ...
> I have seen some more complex syntax being thrown around on the Z39.50
> list, but I'm not up to speed on it.

Z39.50 is complex enough that several different URL "services" will
probably come out of it (nothing that will help here I think).
There's some irony in the fact that one feature of Z39.50 was that
it relied on no particular ASCII expressable query language, while
now the "URL-as-query" calls for one.

-John

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