What's the term for the part of the URL after the question mark?

language-agnostic, terminology, url

Solution

It's the query, or sometimes the query string.

To pinch a useful diagram from the URI RFC:

     foo://example.com:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose
     \_/   \______________/\_________/ \_________/ \__/
      |           |            |            |        |
   scheme     authority       path        query   fragment

Problem

`http://www.example.com?foo` What's the term for the `foo` part of the URL?

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