Help with restful like interface

Re the first example you'd want a key in the querystring something like ?temp=23

You'd then be able to access as a.query["temp"].

In your second I can see what you want to do but syntax not quite right. You'd split to a new variable for one thing.

Happy to give you the right code later - on a mobile currently- but this may help you

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp