Authoritative position of duplicate HTTP GET query keys

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There is no spec on this. You may do what you like.

Typical approaches include: first-given, last-given, array-of-all, string-join-with-comma-of-all.

Suppose the raw request is:

GET /blog/posts?tag=ruby&tag=rails HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Then there are various options for what request.query['tag'] should yield, depending on the language or the framework:

request.query['tag'] => 'ruby'
request.query['tag'] => 'rails'
request.query['tag'] => ['ruby', 'rails']
request.query['tag'] => 'ruby,rails'

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