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Currently urlencoding is done by callers of the Pywikibot http module. The relevant functions in the http module should accept params and data, like requests.get. Specifically functions _enqueue and fetch, and less important request.

http_tests.py should be enhance to rigorously test the new functionality, using dry tests (no network) and live https://httpbin.org tests.

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