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API does not decode query values correctly




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nadir-seen-fire



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:28 am Reply with quote
I was building something personal that uses ANN's api and through a bug in it realized that ANN's api doesn't decode query string values in the normal way.

Specifically the + that is. In the query string both + and %20 can represent a. And the url encoding functions used in most programming languages will prefer to output a + instead of a %20 if they know they are encoding for something in the query string.

Unfortunately it looks like ANN's API isn't correctly turning + in the query string into a space and as a result these two API requests which should refer to the exact same resource give different results (or rather one of them doesn't return anything at all):
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:40 am Reply with quote
fixed
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nadir-seen-fire



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:14 am Reply with quote
Great. It's a bit of a side request, but it would be nice if some of the related anime/manga stuff was exposed in the API like sequels, remakes, side-stories, adaptions, etc...
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