On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org > wrote:
> Because backslash is the escape character in JSON strings, and so needs to > be escaped to represent an actual backslash. If your JSON decoder is not > properly transforming that token into a native string ending with a single > backslash then your JSON decoder is fundamentally broken and should > probably be replaced. > I wonder if it would be worth for the API to issue a more specific warning when a token has been submitted but it does not have the format that tokens normally do. Something like "you submitted the token abc1234 \ but you were expected to submit the token abc1234+\ which in the raw request should look like abc1234%2B%5C" might make it easier for people to figure out on their own what they are doing wrong.
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