[drakma-devel] Bug report: Overeager encoding of parameters

Mon Jul 7 14:41:47 UTC 2008

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:28:13 -0700 (PDT), Eric Benson <eric_a_benson at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It appears that drakma is encoding plus signs (+) in query
> parameters, turning them into %2B when they should be left alone.

According to 3.4 of RFC 2396 the character "+" is reserved in query
components.  Encoding plus signs in GET requests is also something
Firefox and Internet Explorer do.

> This confuses the server in this case.

Maybe the server is confused anyway?

Edi.