fix: keep blank-valued query params significant in query_string_matcher

[chuenchen309]

query_string_matcher parses both the incoming request query and the configured query with parse_qsl() at its default keep_blank_values=False, so any empty-valued parameter (b=, or a bare b) is dropped before comparison:

>>> parse_qsl("a=1&b=")
[('a', '1')]          # b= vanished

This matcher is auto-added for any registered URL carrying a query string (BaseResponse._should_match_querystring), so blank params are silently ignored on both sides of the default path:

responses.add(responses.GET, "http://example.com/?a=1", body="M")
requests.get("http://example.com/?a=1&b=")   # wrongly matches (the extra b= is ignored)

It's also inconsistent with the request-param parser in responses/__init__.py, which uses keep_blank_values=True — so request.params and the explicit query_param_matcher already treat b= as a real parameter.

Fix: parse both sides of query_string_matcher with keep_blank_values=True. Added test_query_string_matcher_blank_values (fails on master, passes with this change).

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Disclosure: fully AI-authored (Claude Code, autonomous) — an AI wrote the change and ran the tests; the account operator did not hand-review the diff.

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[markstory]

Disclosure: this fix was prepared with AI assistance (Claude). I reproduced the behaviour and ran every test above myself before submitting.

In the future, you should remove the LLM checklists and noise from your pull request descriptions. It makes your contributions look like low-quality changes that are likely to be rejected by open source projects.

[chuenchen309]

Thanks Mark, that's fair — I've trimmed the description down to just the bug and the fix. I also corrected the disclosure line: this was AI-authored end to end, so I shouldn't have worded it as if I'd run the tests by hand.