No, the "those characters" that the quote refers to, are the characters
slash ("/") and question mark ("?"). This is not a general recommendation
against percent-encoding the query part.

/Lars

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 16:25, Stefan Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not an RFC wizard, but I've seen this come up before and it's an
> excellent question.
>
> $ perl -MMojo::Parameters -E 'say Mojo::Parameters->new(var=>"a b")'
> var=a+b
> $ perl -MMojo::Parameters -E 'say Mojo::Parameters->new("a b")->to_string'
> a%20b
>
> This struck me as interesting, so I dug into RFC3986
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986> (as referenced by Mojo::Parameters
> <https://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojo/Parameters>) and I see this from section
> 3.4 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.4>:
>
> However, as query components are often used to carry identifying
> information in the form of "key=value" pairs and one frequently used value
> is a reference to another URI, *it is sometimes better for usability to
> avoid percent- encoding those characters*.
>
>
> So, given that bold, I take it to mean that Mojo::Parameters decided to go
> for what's "sometimes better".  :)
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:55 AM Lars Thegler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would have expected
>>
>>   Mojo::URL->new(...)->query(var=>'a b')
>>
>> to return
>>
>>   ...?var=a%20b
>>
>> but instead it does
>>
>>   ...?var=a+b
>>
>> Is this as intended? It's not how RFC3986 specifies it, as far as I can
>> tell.
>>
>> /Lars
>>
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