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Re: URL query syntax

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 12:27:56 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, Bachir Bendrissou via curl-users wrote:

> Are there any query strings that are invalid and should be rejected by the
> Curl parser?

Not really, no. The query part is just a sequence of characters.

> *"https://example.com/?a=ba=a
> The URL is accepted with no errors reported, despite missing a delimiter.

There is no such standard that says a query part must be a set of name =
content pairs. While it is often used so, that is just by convention.

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Received on 2023-10-02