API request: Regarding '&' and '='

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l0rdphi1

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The ampersand and equals-sign are special characters. For obvious reasons, in the context of URL-formatted keys and values, they cannot exist (well, actually, they can exist to some extent, but PHP's parse_str function hasn't realized that yet).

For future versions of DA, can '&' and '=' be escaped in some form or another? A simple ' %26' for '&' and '%3D' for '=' should be fine.

Thanks :)
 
Which for.. DA results, or the values you pass in?
And if it's for a DA result, let me know which command, because most of them should already be escaped.

John
 
The user input would be up to the browser. DA will find all the %## characters (and the space '+' character) and convert them to their proper form. If the browser passes a pile of unencoded & characters, DA has to assume that they are value separators. (It's the responsibility of the sender to encode text).

And if DA ever shows & or = in the result that's outputted (which isn't a value separator) let me know so I can have a look where/why it's happening.

John
 
I'll have to dig it up again, but if I remember correctly, I was getting a few in the create account error string. I'll find them.
 
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