kennethreitz/requests — Issue #392: colon in url path is escaped
Author: fmarani
Created: 2012-01-27 11:07:35+00:00
State: open

if you get a url with this format http://www.colon.com/kql:a/in, the colon after kql becomes escaped and as far as i understood it shouldn't.

Same behavior does not happen in urllib2.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2053132/is-a-colon-safe-for-friendly-url-use