> However, that would violate the HTTP/1.1 spec. As said there aren't many options, one would be a single parameter (jira does that for JQL) and the rest someh

> However, that would violate the HTTP/1.1 spec. As said there aren't many options, one would be a single parameter (jira does that for JQL) and the rest somehow url encoded. However that problem doesn't only happen to rest. Everything on the web suffers from that problem (Jira is a normal Site which doesn't use too much from a Rest API (yet)) so his statement is really falsy.