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Folks interested in this sort of news might also enjoy the OpenBSD Journal, which covered this recently, albeit more succinctly: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20191202105849

Totally off-topic, but it's interesting how the URL uses ; as the GET parameter separator rather than &.

The internal syntax and semantics of the query part is not really defined by HTTP. (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.4)

Also:

"Historic RFC 1866 (obsoleted by RFC 2854) encourages CGI authors to support ';' in addition to '&'"