Getting the url parameters inside the html page

I have a HTML page which is loaded using a URL that looks a little like this:

http://localhost:8080/GisProject/MainService?s=C&o=1

I would like to obtain the query string parameters in the URL without using a jsp.

Questions

1. Can this be done using Javascript or jQuery? Because I want to test my page using my Node.js local server before deploying it in the remote machine which uses a Java server.

2. Is there any library that will allow me to do that?

Answer

A nice solution is given here:

function GetURLParameter(sParam)
{
    var sPageURL = window.location.search.substring(1);
    var sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&');
    for (var i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) 
    {
        var sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');
        if (sParameterName[0] == sParam) 
        {
            return sParameterName[1];
        }
    }
}​

And this is how you can use this function assuming the URL is, http://dummy.com/?technology=jquery&blog=jquerybyexample:

var tech = GetURLParameter('technology');
var blog = GetURLParameter('blog');`