# Rails query param delimiter?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-query-param-delimiter/115029>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-query-param-delimiter/115029 "2007-09-19T21:36:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrochkind](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jrochkind](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jrochkind)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-query-param-delimiter/115029/1 "2007-09-19T21:36:15Z")

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Does Rails recognize “;” as a query param delimiter (as reccommended by  
w3c)? How about “&”, which apache is insisting on changing all of my  
& delimiters to if I try to do rewrites with the query\_string?

Should Rails interpret these as delimiters? Does it?

Thanks!