[Mediawiki-api] [Wikitech-l] API action=edit problem

[Russell Blau]

"MinuteElectron" <minuteelectron at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Russell Blau wrote:
>> "MinuteElectron" <minuteelectron at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Marco Schuster wrote:
>>>> I suspect it are the +es in the "text" field, AFAIR these should be 
>>>> %20,
>>>> right?
>>> Perhaps; " " may be encoded as "+" in URL query strings, and most URL
>>> encoding functions do this.  But in post strings maybe "+" is not
>>> acceptable.  I will look to see if your suggestion fixes this.
>>
>> On http://www.epstone.net/~andrew/wiki/api.php, the query string with 
>> "+"s
>> in it works as expected.
>>
>> Russ
>
> Note the difference between "post" and "query" string -- I never said
> that "+" is not acceptable in query strings (quite the opposite, in
> fact).  But I believe that in post strings "+" is not allowed, please
> correct me if I am wrong, of course.

I'm sorry I wasn't sufficiently precise.  What I meant was that I submitted 
the exact same HTTP request as in my original message, including the "+" 
characters in the request _body_, to the www.epstone.net MediaWiki 
installation, and got an HTTP 200 response with a JSON text body.

Russ