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How to force wget to not URL-encode?

This seems like it should be simple, but I'm having trouble figuring it out. I want to send a wget request similar to the following,

wget http://www.foo.com/bar.cgi?param=\"p\"

but I don't want it to URL-encode the quotes (or anything else, for that matter). Is this possible?

And just to make it clear, I am a) dealing with a server that doesn't URL-decode -- nothing I can do about that -- and b) aware that I can do this with a Python script, or Burp, or many other things. I just need to know if wget can do it.

Thanks!

Solution

  • So curl does not automatically URL-encode parameters in a GET request. This doesn't totally answer my question, but it does give me another option. This:

    curl 'http://www.foo.com/bar.cgi?param="p"'

    does the trick.