Passing a string that contains a semi-colon doesn't properly get encoded

[bobber205]

Discovered this today in a rails app as the backend (since it totally barfs on unescaped semis)

I had a string such as "test;test"

passed it to params in $http post() and put() and got

test;test instead of 

%3B

Shouldn't it encode?

[caitp]

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/Angular.js#L1128 the comment explains why, but if it breaks rails, hmm --- maybe an option around this would be good

[bobber205]

My workaround was to stop sending my JSON data as a param.
Doesn't look like ; is a valid url separator?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3867460/valid-url-separators

[jeffbcross]

Semicolon is a valid delimiter for some parts of url (at least search, I think path as well).

[DanielHeath]

From the duplicate issue: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 is the relevant spec - semicolons should definitely be escaped.