Space character in url path encoded as + instead of %20

[jakul]

Recent versions of Bravado have started encoding space characters in urls as + -> e.g. /path/to/resource/resource+name instead of /path/to/resource/resource%20name.

I haven't been able to find concrete documentation to say that that encoding is against the standard, but a couple of Stack overflow comments imply that plus-encoding is required for query params, but path params should use %20.

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/1006074/691427
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/40292260/691427

The default behaviour of Flask servers will decode %20 by default but not +.

This was introduced by #238, which switched to using urllib.parse.quote_plus instead of urllib.parse.quote.

I think this issue needs 2 things:

1. To gain consensus that the desired behaviour is to encode spaces with %20 instead of +
2. Code to do that

@sjaensch @macisamuele Your input would be appreciated as you worked on the original issue.

[sjaensch]

Thanks @jakul for the report! I'm looking into it.

[sjaensch]

The fix is released in version 5.0.3.

[jakul]

Thanks for the super quick fix @sjaensch !