Bug#653099: ITP: liburi-encode-perl -- Perl module to encode and decode strings to URIs

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 12:10 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Why is anyone using URI::Encode instead of URI::Escape, which
> > handles all of this, is faster to boot, and is in core? If you
> > actually wanted its main feature, you'd just use:
> > 
> > use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
> > uri_escape_utf8($string,"^A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?\#\[\]\@\!\$\&\'\(\)\*\+\,\;\=");
> 
> I agree. I've packaged URI::Encode because it's a dependency for a
> larger module (Facebook::Graph). I've already opened a bug upstream
> suggesting that URI::Escape be used instead of URI::Encode.

Ah, cool. I'd suggest just patching Facebook::Graph to use
URI::Escape, and avoid having to package and maintain this module.


Don Armstrong

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