Disabling the URL encoding in Guzzle - php

Question

I have been trying to download a file in Guzzle and it acts wired, Then I noticed that the request URL has gone haywire. I don't understand how to use the setEncodingType(false); function.
This is what I have right now.
public class Foo{
private $client;
private $loginUrl = 'https://<site>/login';
private $parseUrl = 'https://<site>/download';
public function __construct()
{
require_once APPPATH . 'third_party/guzzle/autoloader.php';
$this->client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['cookies' => true, 'allow_redirects' => [
'max' => 10, // allow at most 10 redirects.
'strict' => true, // use "strict" RFC compliant redirects.
'referer' => true, // add a Referer header
'protocols' => ['https'], // only allow https URLs
'track_redirects' => true
]]);
}
public function download(){
$q_params = array('param_a'=> 'a', 'param_b'=>'b');
$target_file = APPPATH.'files/tmp.log';
$response = $this->client->request('GET', $this->parseUrl,['query'=>$reportVars, 'sink' => $target_file]);
}
}
Can anyone tell me how can I use disable the url encoding in the above code?

Answer 1

Cursory glance through the code of GuzzleHttp\Client::applyOptions indicates that when you utilze the "query" request option the query will be built to PHP_QUERY_RFC3986 as shown below:
if (isset($options['query'])) {
$value = $options['query'];
if (is_array($value)) {
$value = http_build_query($value, null, '&', PHP_QUERY_RFC3986);
}
if (!is_string($value)) {
throw new \InvalidArgumentException('query must be a string or array');
}
$modify['query'] = $value;
unset($options['query']);
}
Guzzle utilizes GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Uri internally. Note how the withoutQueryValue() and withQueryValue() methods will also encode the query string.
I have had a lot of success "hard coding" my query parameters, like the following:
$uri = 'http://somewebsite.com/page.html?param_a=1&param2=245';
I would like to also note that there is no setEncodingType() within GuzzleHttp\Client.