Also, about the preparation work, I had a look at Text::Balanced, which can deal with all the quotes, but it is not clear to me if and how it can also deal with barewords at the same time, and how it could fit in the engine.
Take a look on sources of _parse_param() subroutine in HTTP::WebTest::Parser which parses such name/value pairs where values are optionally quoted. It uses Text::Balanced to extract quoted values.
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