Python requests and html char encode

Question

I get a failure in GET/POST whenever I use html escape chars in my payload e.g. in this case amp - &

url = 'https://myserver/?filter={"arr": {"$in": ["me and you", "me & you"]}}'


res = reqSession.get(url, verify=False)

that resolve:

https%3A//myserver/%3Ffilter%3D%7B%22arr%22%3A%20%7B%22%24in%22%3A%20%5B%22me%20and%20you%22%2C%20%22me%20%26%20you%22%5D%7D%7D

if I use the urllib.quote('&') on the char it's working but If I do it on the entire url string the requests failed with Invalid url error

I also tried to put headers={'Content-type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'} in the get method but that didn't helped me as well

any idea ?

Answer 1

According to This responses on StackOverflow you cannot use & in the HTTP parameter - it is reserved.