• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I hate where that question mark is in that link. Is this the fabled lake that Sir Wilsford came in? Click to find out!

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      2 days ago

      Off topic, but that question mark just indicates that the following are POST arguments (separated by &). For example, logging into ChatGPT, you’d encounter a URL like this:

      https://auth.openai.com/authorize
      ?audience=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.openai.com%2Fv1
      &client_id=
      &ext-login-allow-phone=true
      &ext-oai-did=
      &prompt=login
      &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fchatgpt.com%2Fapi%2Fauth%2Fcallback%2Fopenai
      &response_type=code
      &scope=openid%20email%20profile%20offline_access%20model.request%20model.read%20organization.read%20organization.write
      &screen_hint=login
      &state=
      &flow=treatment
      

      I’ve separated the different parameters being sent for readability. Moreover, I’ve removed some of the values that came with the URL because yikes! It’s even more egregious in shopping side URLs though.

      Some of those URLs won’t work with that stuff removed (as some of those arguments are mandatory), but some, like Wikipedia, would work perfectly fine.

      Anyways, sorry about that. Here’s the link without that shit:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsford_cum_Lake