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pas on Dec 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenBSD system-call-origin verification

The internal syntax and semantics of the query part is not really defined by HTTP. (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.4)

Also:

"Historic RFC 1866 (obsoleted by RFC 2854) encourages CGI authors to support ';' in addition to '&'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#cite_note-23

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