Posted by Robert Cummings on 02/11/05 18:16

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:28, Brian Dunning wrote:
> I see URLs formatted like this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/xyz
>
> How do you read that "xyz," since there's no "/?x=" preceding it? Is it
> not a get parameter?

It means the hosting webserver either does a URL rewrite for the
receiver application, or the receiver application parses the URL itself.
In either case the developer then assigns the value to a variable of
their choice. This is usually a positional approach to URL variables.
Meaning you can't arbitrarily re-arrange the order of the variables.

Cheers,
Rob.
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