title: Url format in a json query string
body: <p>In <a href="http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/" rel="nofollow">jQuery.getJSON</a> it says:  </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Data that is sent to the server is appended to the URL as a query
    string  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What is the format of this string? I see a url of this format coming from such a jquery json call from client side:   </p>
  
  <p><code>http://&lt;domain:port/path/something.html?somevalue=a;othervalues=1,2,3,4;v=3</code>  </p>
  
  <p>Is this format specific to json? I generally thought that the parameters appended to the URL are separated by <code>&amp;</code></p>