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Is there any difference in behaviour of below URL.
I don’t know why the & is inserted, does it make any difference ?
www.testurl.com/test?param1=test&current=true
versus
www.testurl.com/test?param1=test¤t=true
&is HTML for “Start of a character reference”.&is the character reference for “An ampersand”.¤t;is not a standard character reference and so is an error (browsers may try to perform error recovery but you should not depend on this).If you used a character reference for a real character (e.g.
™) then it (™) would appear in the URL instead of the string you wanted.(Note that depending on the version of HTML you use, you may have to end a character reference with a
;, which is why&trade=will be treated as ™. HTML 4 allows it to be ommited if the next character is a non-word character (such as=) but some browsers (Hello Internet Explorer) have issues with this).