Escaping ' " \

[kevinastock]

Some characters are being escaped which are consistent with php magic quotes being on.

$ cat test.txt 
' " \
abc123!@#$%^&*()_+=-`~;:/?><,.{}[]|

$ curl -F "data=<test.txt;type=text/plain" http://api.openkeyval.org/hello
{"status":"set","key":"hello","read_only_key":"rok-088ec226a37329f3980db9ab5082c

$ curl http://api.openkeyval.org/hello
\' \" \\
abc123!@#$%^&*()_+=-`~;:/?><,.{}[]|

[tecywiz121]

Seconded. Also, it is escaping the nul character.

[tomash]

thirded, as described here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dy2rh/hey_reddit_we_just_made_openkeyvalorg_an_open/c13t9h8

FlyingV currently has a facility for hacking around that when getting data serialized to JSON (i.e. prior to deserializing, otherwise json parsing fails), but I'd love to remove this hack: http://github.com/tomash/flyingv/blob/master/lib/flyingv.rb#L7

[kevinastock]

From what I can tell looking at the source the data is not serialized to JSON. There are only two calls to json_encode, which are only called if there's a callback or no body (data) text.

Edit: My bad, I misunderstood what flyingv was doing.

[tomash]

nonono, misunderstanding. json (de)serializing is done of course only in my ruby library (flyingv).

[dustball]

Fixed with 2a08e67ec15aba015753873978c1e57354c16904

[tomash]

Great, thanks! I've removed the dirty hack from FlyingV then: http://github.com/tomash/flyingv/commit/c8963024375cb00e9459c588586da4383805626b and bumbed gem version.