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by cobbzilla 42 days ago
I was responding to:

> Query strings existed before CGI did… There's nothing wrong about having things decided by the server

Sure, but there is also no standard for how to format/parse the query string. And also no server plugin frameworks. So you are inventing your own standard and extending some HTTP server for which you have source. Until CGI forces a standard, bad as it might be; it’s a common ground.