proposal: net/url: not escaping # in url.URL.String()

[Andrew-M-C]

By url.URL's String() method, special characters will be escaped into %xx format.
However, as SPA URL use # as a routing hash identifier, # should not be escaped.

Playground

Is it possible to provide another method to encode URL without escaping # in path field?

[seankhliao]

that's not a path, that's a fragment / hash

[mvdan]

@seankhliao note that per the playground link above, the first hash character is parsed as part of the path.

[seankhliao]

yes, but it uses ParseRequestURI, which assumes a stripped fragment. it has to be escaped to preserve the semantics in a general url string