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> It’s my website: I can do what I want with it. > And you can do what you want with yours! That does not make a lot of sense. Yes, you can do what you want w

> It’s my website: I can do what I want with it. > And you can do what you want with yours! That does not make a lot of sense. Yes, you can do what you want with your website, but query-string is a way for users to query for additional information or wants or needs. I use them on my own websites to have more flexibility. For instance: foobar.com/ducks?pdf That will download the website content as a formatted .pdf file. I can give many more examples here. The "query strings are horrible" I can not agree with at all. His websites don't allow for query strings? That's fine. But in no way does this mean query strings are useless. Besides, what does it mean to "ban" it? You simply don't respond to query strings you don't want to handle. We do so via general routing in web-applications these days.

pessimizer 5mo ago
> foobar.com/ducks?pdf This isn't relevant when talking about links to his site. This is relevant when talking about links to your site. > Besides, what does it mean to "ban" it? You simply don't respond to query strings you don't want to handle. It means that you're going to get some sort of 400 error when you follow a link to his site with a query string attached to it. He simply will not respond to query strings that he doesn't want to handle, which is all of them.
creatonez 5mo ago
> "query strings are horrible" That's not at all what the article says. You're responding to a weird strawman that doesn't resemble the article's actual point.