VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Problem
- Query parameters: http://example.com/apples?order=random&color=blue
- Matrix parameters: http://example.com/apples;order=random;color=blue
The differences between Matrix parameters and Query Parameters are much more than just convention.
The main differences are:
- urls with query params won’t have their response cached by intermediaries/proxies (at present)
- matrix parameters may appear anywhere in path
- calculating the relative uri is different
- query params are generally abused to add new verbs instead of using existing methods on resources
- matrix parameters are not resources, they are aspects that help reference a resource in an information space that is difficult to represent within a hierarchy
