[3.0 & 2.1]: Semicolon http query delimeter no longer recommended

[sbulen]

Basic Information

Digging into some syntax, I just read that the semicolon is now discouraged as a delimiter.

Way back when, a semicolon was considered a valid delimiter (1999). Apparently, not any more. The 2014 W3C only includes ampersands, i.e., semicolons are now actually considered invalid.

Let strings be the result of strictly splitting the string payload on U+0026 AMPERSAND characters (&).

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/forms.html#url-encoded-form-data

E.g.,
https://www.yadayada.org/community/index.php?action=post;board=263.0

Should probably be:
https://www.yadayada.org/community/index.php?action=post&board=263.0

Probably a 3.0 only thing.

We probably need to honor & and ; on URLs for a while, even if only generating using &.

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Version/Git revision

3.0 Alpha 4

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[jdarwood007]

I agree, 2.1 will be as is. But for 3.0, we can move to the standard. Unless @Sesquipedalian wants to ovrride any of this.

[Sesquipedalian]

I agree, 2.1 will be as is. But for 3.0, we can move to the standard. Unless @Sesquipedalian wants to ovrride any of this.

Agreed.