diff --git a/lib/encode.cpp b/lib/encode.cpp
index 66a085a2..79ce8b4d 100644
--- a/lib/encode.cpp
+++ b/lib/encode.cpp
@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ namespace Encodings{
   }
 
   /// urlencodes std::string data, leaving only the characters A-Za-z0-9~!&()' alone.
-  std::string URL::encode(const std::string &c){
+  std::string URL::encode(const std::string &c, const std::string &ign){
     std::string escaped = "";
     int max = c.length();
     for (int i = 0; i < max; i++){
       if (('0' <= c[i] && c[i] <= '9') || ('a' <= c[i] && c[i] <= 'z') ||
           ('A' <= c[i] && c[i] <= 'Z') ||
           (c[i] == '$' || c[i] == '-' || c[i] == '_' || c[i] == '.' || c[i] == ',' || c[i] == '!' ||
-           c[i] == '*' || c[i] == '(' || c[i] == ')' || c[i] == '/' || c[i] == '\'')){
+           c[i] == '*' || c[i] == '(' || c[i] == ')' || c[i] == '/' || c[i] == '\'') || (ign.size() && ign.find(c[i]) != std::string::npos)){
         escaped.append(&c[i], 1);
       }else{
         if (c[i] == ' '){
diff --git a/lib/encode.h b/lib/encode.h
index a604bb42..6d4b8028 100644
--- a/lib/encode.h
+++ b/lib/encode.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace Encodings {
       /// urldecodes std::string data, parsing out both %-encoded characters and +-encoded spaces.
       static std::string decode(const std::string & in);
       /// urlencodes std::string data, leaving only the characters A-Za-z0-9~!&()' alone.
-      static std::string encode(const std::string & c);
+      static std::string encode(const std::string & c, const std::string &ign = "");
 
   };
 
diff --git a/lib/http_parser.cpp b/lib/http_parser.cpp
index 6f1caee9..3c619df5 100644
--- a/lib/http_parser.cpp
+++ b/lib/http_parser.cpp
@@ -176,9 +176,9 @@ std::string HTTP::URL::getUrl() const{
   }
   if (port.size() && getPort() != getDefaultPort()){ret += ":" + port;}
   ret += "/";
-  if (path.size()){ret += Encodings::URL::encode(path);}
+  if (path.size()){ret += Encodings::URL::encode(path, "=");}
   if (args.size()){ret += "?" + args;}
-  if (frag.size()){ret += "#" + Encodings::URL::encode(frag);}
+  if (frag.size()){ret += "#" + Encodings::URL::encode(frag, "=");}
   return ret;
 }