Passing a URL with brackets to curl

If I try to pass a URL to curl that contains brackets, it fails with an error:

$ curl 'http://www.google.com/?TEST[]=1'curl: (3) [globbing] illegal character in range specification at pos 29

However, if I escape both brackets, it appears to work:

$ curl 'http://www.google.com/?TEST\[\]=1'

How do I fix this? Is there an argument that will escape URLs automatically, or a description of the characters that need to be escaped before passing to curl?