Why is the Request collection of type Object?

[Author #1]

Can we actually carry along non-string values through the query
string? If yes, how? If not, why didn't they make it of type String?

Thx.

 

[Patrice]

What is the exact type you are talking about ?

This is a string here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.item.aspx

My personal preference is to use explictely Request.QueryString (Request
will search other sources as well).

As long as you are consistent with the format you are using you could
convert back and forth but yes ultimately whatever appears in your browser
url is technically speaking text...