On the use of %20 instead of + in URIs

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

(My initial email only went to Adnan, sorry.)


> The Go URL library encodes spaces in the query string as '+'. Is this
> correct behavior?

Not for Gemini, no. According to RFCs it is okay, I believe. Whether or
not this should be changed, here's how my go-gemini library handles it.
These funcs should be used in place of the "net/url" ones.


func QueryEscape(query string) string {
    return strings.ReplaceAll(url.PathEscape(query), "+", "%2B")
}


func QueryUnescape(query string) (string, error) {
    return url.PathUnescape(query)
}



I hope that's helpful.


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