I know I need to encode the arguments of parameters in a query string of a URI, but what about the parameter names, do they need to be encoded too?
- I can't think of a reason why parameter name would need to be encoded. I am struggling with the same question, and so far nothing came up in my searches.manish– manish2018-07-25 16:25:53 +00:00Commented Jul 25, 2018 at 16:25
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Yes. Special characters in query strings have their special meaning anywhere in the query string.
If the parameter name is foo=bar then ?foo=bar=something won't be parsed as foo=bar equals something.
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"won't be parsed" - it depends on the parsing implementation, isn't it (hypothetically, a parsing implementation may decide that for each query string parameter all
= except the last one are ignored)? after all, = is allowed unencoded in a query string.