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allowReserved: false rejects percent-encoded reserved characters in query parameters #308

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The allowReserved check runs against request.URL.Query(), which percent-decodes values. A compliant client sending a comma as %2C (e.g. ?filter[dateRange]=2026-05-17%2C2026-07-17) is decoded back to , before the reserved-character regex runs, so the request is rejected with "Query parameter 'filter' value contains reserved values".

Per OAS 3.1.1, allowReserved is a serialization rule: with false (the default), reserved characters in the data must be percent-encoded on the wire — it does not forbid the data from containing them.

Expectation

The check should run against the raw (still-encoded) value from request.URL.RawQuery, flagging only literal reserved characters.

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