which scripting language in the url part use : and ? to request or get info from the server side?

Question

familiar with the example below?

eg:

http://www.example001.com/browse:tags?word=red

elaborate further using the : and ? and =

:xxxx?xxxx=xxxx

and suggestions on scripting language that can combine together with regular expressions and tag with @ or hash etc

thanks

Answer 1

It might be a link that is processed by a PHP script: http://php.net/manual/de/reserved.variables.get.php

? usually indicates the beginning of the arguments.

= means that argument word gets red as value. This can then be read in PHP via $_GET['word']

I'm not sure what the : is. Maybe it gets converted internally via modrewrite or something.

Answer 2

It is not a scripting language, it is a URL. The HTTP server at www.example001.com will see this query: GET /browse:tags?word=red

It is up to that server to interpret this string and build its response accordingly.