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Thanks, but the point was to be able to do it all as GET. Support for POST only became a necessity trying to parse some search engines with parameters in the url.


Yes, you encode `&` as `%26`, `=` as `%3d`, `?` as `%3f` etc. You only need to resort to POST if you would hit length limits with your constructed url.


Thanks again, I see your point, but this would make the syntax absolutely obscure.

The idea is to keep it simple, to just call

     ?url=theurl&sel=.simple_stuff
I will look at using something else than % as you suggested.


It doesn't make the syntax obscure, it makes the syntax standard. Your syntax, being ad hoc, is obscure.




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