[cse491] GET query string parsing

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 09:24:33PM -0400, Joe Amenta wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Jack Carlson wrote:
> > > In the homework, we're told to "read and ignore any GET query strings".
> > > I'm curious as to what this actually means--is reading the URL path and
> > > then splitting on the '?' good enough?  Or are we expected to fill some
> > > sort of dictionary with key/value pairs from the query string?
> >
> > Just split on the '?' and ignore what comes after.  Next homework will
> > involve
> > using the urlparse module, but that's next HW.
> 
> The GET query string is included in the URL.  Should we include it in the
> output with the rest of the URL?
> 
> e.g., "hello, /index.php?name=Joe&otherstuff=yes" or "hello, /index.php"

Discard it.

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu