0.7 escapes safe characters (change in behavior from 0.6)

[sethboyles]

0.6 used URI.escape, which uses URI::DEFAULT_PARSER.regexp[:UNSAFE] (/[^\-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\d;\/?:@&=+$,\[\]]/) under the hood to determine which characters to escape. This did not escape characters like forward slashes.

The change in 0.7 uses a much simpler regex that will result in URIs like this:

%2Fmy%2Furi

When they used to be result like this:

/my/uri

Is there a reason to escape more characters? We would prefer a non-breaking change that escaped the same characters as 0.6.

[sethboyles]

@geemus would you consider a PR that fixes this regression? This is blocking us from upgrading to Ruby 3, so we would be happy to contribute

[sethboyles]

Made a PR anyway: #25

I also added a test that shows the regression.

[geemus]

Hey, thanks. Sorry I think I missed the initial issue as I wasn't actively watching the repo any more.

I believe we made those changes in response to the URI method deprecation and didn't intend for it to change behavior, so a more effective fix (and one that doesn't rely on our own regex) sounds great.

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[geemus]

Looks like this was closed some time ago by #25 and we must have forgotten to close this issue at the time.