For "?"
- No point in breaking existing URls
and software to make something which
looks different from other URls.
- Translation to make the gopher command
line is trivial.
- It is useful to be able to tell,
for a *generic* URL, that it is a
set of query parameters applied to
an underlying object, and deduce
the URL of the underlying object.
- The fact that the semanics and internal
syntax of the search string is not
defined in the URL spec and takes
make forms does not affect these
points.
Tim BL