On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I consider it to be a bug to insert that ampersand prepended to the data, it
> is meant to be put as a separator between separate pieces of data.

Hm, or perhaps not. It is quite deliberately there to "fix" this case:

  curl -G -d "name=Daniel" http://localhost/?iq=verylow

So if there would be a change to this behavior, it would probably have to
check the trailing letter of the existing URL and act according to what's
there.

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