in reply to Re: Clean way to build URI's?
in thread Clean way to build URI's?

Because it doesn't URL-encode characters in the interpolated strings, so the outcome is not guaranteed to be a syntactically valid URI.

Maybe the URI module would be more appropriate?

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Re^3: Clean way to build URI's?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 02, 2010 at 12:07 UTC

    I was asking why the OP thought so. Now we'll never know for sure.

    BTW:URL encoding is easily applied after the interpolation.

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      BTW:URL encoding is easily applied after the interpolation.

      Not without possible data loss. 

      my $value = 'foo&bar=baz';
my $key   = 'something'

my $url1 = encode_url("http://example.com/script?$value=$key");
my $url2 = 'http://example.com/script?%s=%s', map encode_url_chunk($_)
+, $key, $value;

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      For proper working functions encode_url and encode_url_chunk (which have to encode different things, of course) the outcome will be different.

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      No it's not. The encoder would have no way to know which "?" (for example) are separators (can't be encoded) and which "?" are data (must be encoded).
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