Is it valid to have more than one question mark in a URL?
- by Bungle
I came across the following URL today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inmarin/detail??blogid=122&entry_id=64497
Notice the doubled question mark at the beginning of the query string:
??blogid=122&entry_id=64497
My browser didn't seem to have any trouble with it, and running a quick bookmarklet:
javascript:alert(document.location.search);
just gave me the query string shown above.
Is this a valid URL? The reason I'm being so pedantic (assuming that I am) is because I need to parse URLs like this for query parameters, and supporting doubled question marks would require some changes to my code. Obviously if they're in the wild, I'll need to support them; I'm mainly curious if it's my fault for not adhering to URL standards exactly, or if it's in fact a non-standard URL.
