title: Cookies, HTTP GET, and Query Strings
body: <p>The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in re Doubleclick Inc. stated:</p>
  
  <p>"GET information is submitted as part of a Web site's address or "URL," in what is known as a "query string." For example, a request for a hypothetical online record store's selection of Bon Jovi albums might read: <a href="http://recordstore.hypothetical.com/search?terms=bonjovi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://recordstore.hypothetical.com/search?terms=bonjovi</a>. The URL query string begins with the "?" character meaning the cookie would record that the user requested information about Bon Jovi.</p>
  
  <p>Is it true that a URL query string with a "?" would have the cookie record the user requested information?  If so, what RFC/standard includes this?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I understand the United States District Court doesn't define standards, but I would like to have something concrete to note that they were incorrect.</p>