I think there's another benefit here: edge cases will show up. I wrote a Python client for a company's REST API which revealed an RFC bug during testing. From the source:
> For POSTs we do NOT encode our data, as CompanyX's REST API expects square brackets which are normally encoded according to RFC 1738. urllib.urlencode encodes square brackets which the API doesn't like.
Retrospectively, I should have asked the company to fix their bug, rather than work around it myself, but at the time I was a less confident programmer.
> For POSTs we do NOT encode our data, as CompanyX's REST API expects square brackets which are normally encoded according to RFC 1738. urllib.urlencode encodes square brackets which the API doesn't like.
Retrospectively, I should have asked the company to fix their bug, rather than work around it myself, but at the time I was a less confident programmer.