URL Path Parameter Use Cases

Normally when I think of parameters in an URL, I think of the query string. Technically, however, it is also legal to specify parameters in the path segments. Thus given a URL like this:

http://www.a.com/frisbee/brand

It is legal to write this instead:

http://www.a.com/frisbee;color=red;size=small/brand;test=1

In practice I never see this. What frameworks, if any, do make use of this?

I'm working with ASP.NET MVC3 of late, and I'm not sure it can extract these kinds of parameters.