Add an option to disable or change URI encoding in HTTP package

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by kaisellgren@gmail.com

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Currently as it stands, the HTTP package uses encodeUriComponent() from dart:uri to encode all fields.

This is not good when writing something like OAuth 1 lib for Twitter which happens to be what I/we are doing right now.

Instead, I have a fully RFC 3986 compliant percentage encoder, which Twitter OAuth API likes. The problem is that there is no way to disable or switch the encoding that is used.

Can we either add an option to disable it or to provide a callback for encoding?

[sgjesse]

cc @nex3.
cc @munificent.
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[nex3]

What's the practical difference between your encoder and encodeUriComponent?

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This comment was originally written by kaisellgren@gmail.com

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This is exactly what I am doing: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/percent-encoding-parameters

[nex3]

Perhaps the better solution is to follow RFC 3986 in the default encodeUriComponent implementation. Soren, what do you think?

I don't think this is something we want to make configurable in the http package. URL-escaping is only performed when using the [Request.bodyFields] attribute, which is just a wrapper over the underlying [Request.body] field. It would be pretty easy to write a [Request] subclass that uses whatever encoding mechanism you want for [bodyFields], or to write a [Client] subclass that re-encodes requests before sending them.

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cc @sgjesse.

[sgjesse]

This is also related to the discussion in issue #7464.

There is also the subtle difference in using URL encoding for FORM (both post and get) using the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. HTML 4.01 section 17.13.4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1) says that space characters should be replaced by `+'.

Of cause the encoding of form post with application/x-www-form-urlencoded is not directly related to RFC 3938 except that the RFC 1738 (the RFC updated by RFC 3938) encoding is used after the space to `+' replacement has taken place.

[sethladd]

Doesn't sound like the http package will add this option. Please reopen if otherwise.

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This issue has been moved to dart-lang/http#11.