> If a HTTP request has unexpected and unsupported query parameters, such a GET request will normally fail. When I made this decision it seemed the cautious an

> If a HTTP request has unexpected and unsupported query parameters, such a GET request will normally fail. When I made this decision it seemed the cautious and conservative approach, but this caution has turned out to be a mistake on the modern web. For a web page it might be a mistake. For an API it's often not a mistake, depending on the utility of the API. eg analytics reporting.