René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Unreserved characters are escaped when making a HTTP request","articleBody":"* **Version**: >=10.20.1\r\n* **Platform**: all\r\n* **Subsystem**: http\r\n\r\n### What steps will reproduce the bug?\r\n\r\n```js\r\nconst http = require('http');\r\n\r\nconst url = new URL('http://httpbin.org/anything?a=~');\r\nurl.search = url.searchParams.toString(); // trigger normalization\r\n\r\nconst request = http.get(url, response => {\r\n    const chunks = [];\r\n\r\n    response.on('data', chunk => {\r\n        chunks.push(chunk);\r\n    });\r\n\r\n    response.once('end', () => {\r\n        console.log(request._header);\r\n        // Actual:\r\n        // GET /anything?a=%7E\r\n        //\r\n        // Expected:\r\n        // GET /anything?a=~\r\n    });\r\n})\r\n```\r\n\r\n### How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?\r\n\r\nAlways.\r\n\r\n### What is the expected behavior?\r\n\r\n```\r\nGET /anything?a=~\r\n```\r\n\r\n### What do you see instead?\r\n\r\n```\r\nGET /anything?a=%7E\r\n```\r\n\r\n### Additional information\r\n\r\n> According to tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.3 tilde is unreserved and should not encoded by URI producers.\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/sindresorhus/got/issues/1180#issuecomment-618831326\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/szmarczak","@type":"Person","name":"szmarczak"},"datePublished":"2020-04-24T08:29:47Z","url":"https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/33037"}