Is there any format convention in query strings?

formatting, query-string, url

Solution

I don't recall actually ever seeing people use dashes in parameter names in the query string. That probably shoots it down as best practice.

I would personally avoid camel case because I don't want to get into case sensitivity/insensitivity issues.

That leaves underscores, which I find is commonly used.

Problem

I was wondering if you normally capitalise any letter in query strings, use dashes or underscores for variable names, or have any other query string naming convention. I cannot find any reference to it. Edit: Since there seems to be no convention, are there any best practices or usual way to do it?

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