I know I'm several years late to the party with this, but we recently, finally, updated URI::Escape. I'm sure it's all real up-to-date and real correct and real conformant with the latest RFC and whatever, but I liked it better when it just worked, DWIM. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

  use URI::Escape;

  my $link = 'httpd://www.example.com/stuff/this and that.pl?foo=bar';
  $link = uri_escape($link);

  if ($gimme_what_i_want) {
    $link =~ s!%2F!/!g;
    $link =~ s!%3A!:!g;
    $link =~ s!%3F!?!g;
    $link =~ s!%3D!=!g;
  }

  print "$link\n";

__DATA__

the old way:

httpd://www.example.com/stuff/this%20and%20that.pl?foo=bar

the new way:

httpd%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fstuff%2Fthis%20and%20that.pl%3Ffoo%3Db
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Is the old encoding method available through another module? Should I subclass the new one to rebreak it? If I have to tell every character I do or don't want to escape, I might as well write my own...

YuckFoo

In reply to Where is URI::Escape::DWIM by YuckFoo

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