What the Jibberish After the ? in URLs Means
I never really gave it much thought, but when I see a URL pop up with a ? and then a bunch of jibberish behind it, I usually just assume it’s something totally arbitrary. Turns out I’m wrong (who knew). Not only does that jibberish contain valuable information, but now I can actually use it too. This probably shouldn’t be exciting.
Let’s talk about a fictitious webpage:
www.davecroushoreisawesome.com/index.php?dave=awesome&response=totally
If you went to that link, and that was a real webpage, it’s possible to pull in the values “awesome” and “totally” which are stored in an array, with the names “dave” and “response.”
Awesome!
Totally!
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