Helpful to verify reports of your own downtime, or to double check a downed website you are trying to access.
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How about <cfset theValue = url["item[]"]>
You could also dump the url to see what's in there
<cfdump var="#url#">
The result, if you can read it, is a comma delimited list of values in one variable: 1,2,3 because the same name is used in each.