Parsing URIs that have curly braces, URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?)

Question

Using ruby 1.9.2-p290. I came across an issue trying to parse a URI like the following:

require \'uri\'
my_uri = \"http://www.anyserver.com/getdata?anyparame         


        

Answer 1

RFC 1738 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html means that you do have to encode the braces

Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
unencoded within a URL.