R. David Murray added the comment:
I did some research on this for a previous issue, and every description of
query strings I could find agreed that the format was '='. That
is, that the '=' is not optional, even though some servers (note, *not*
browsers, they just transmit or display the URI
New submission from David Pizzuto:
Using an empty query argument with no = fails in urlparse.parse_qsl. Chrome and
Firefox accept it without the =, so a navigation to google.com/search?q=foo&bar
appears in the address bar as google.com/search?q=foo&bar=. Neither RFC 1738
nor RFC 3986 define th
