What are the URL parameters? (element at position #3 in urlparse result)

Question

I\'ve taken a look to urlparse.urlparse method documentation and I\'m a little bit confused about what is the parameters part (not to be confused w

Answer 1

fascinating, this is the first time I've encounter them, found this
http://doriantaylor.com/policy/http-url-path-parameter-syntax I also found this http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3 (last paragraph before query) and this http://www.jtmelton.com/2011/02/02/beware-the-http-path-parameter/

their rarely used, I think their meant to attach certain properties to paths .. maybe even control which version of segment you want to use, but this is just a hunch ... either way thank you, for bringing it up.