发送GET变量而不是“？”

Question

I'm working on a website that is trying to call a link like this:

http://mysite/folder/g=foundation

I'm trying to troubleshoot some Javascript issues.

In the 'folder' subfolder there is an index.php that is looking for a 'g' GET variable.

As far as I'm aware this is incorrect and should be:

http://mysite/folder/?g=foundation

Where that would be sent to index.php in the 'folder' subfolder.

Is the first syntax ok? Is the '?' necessary for maybe having only one GET variable?

NOTE:

This whole site is completely working on a production server. This call works. The version that breaks is on a newer Virtual Machine. Are there any configurations I can make to allow this kind of syntax?

Answer 1

The (?) question mark serves a purpose of indicating the initiation and declaration of query parameters. Excluding it would imply that you have a directory with an equals sign within the name.

RFC 1738            Uniform Resource Locators (URL)        December 1994


3.3. HTTP

   The HTTP URL scheme is used to designate Internet resources
   accessible using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

   The HTTP protocol is specified elsewhere. This specification only
   describes the syntax of HTTP URLs.

   An HTTP URL takes the form:

      http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart>

If, however, you must have it your way (without the question mark), you will need to use mod_rewrite.

To answer you question more literally. Yes. The (?) is necessary.