Issue parsing Data through fields when trying to make a transaction

[Tyrasuki]

so, i've been trying to make a transaction through computercraft, since im working on a shop, but whenever i try to pass my privatekey through the http.post, it just errors the following:

{"ok":false,"error":"missing_parameter","parameter":"privatekey"}

even tho i posted the key with the http.post

code used to send request:

pay = http.post("http://krist.ceriat.net/transactions?to=k5n6r931i1&privatekey=xxxxxxxx&amount="..payamm.."&metadata=test").readAll()
print(pay) -- checking for errors

if there is anything im doing wrong here please tell me, i've been looking over the internet for more than an hour.

[Lemmmy]

local pay = http.post("http://krist.ceriat.net/transactions", "to=k5n6r931i1&privatekey=xxxxxxxx&amount="..payamm.."&metadata=test").readAll()
print(pay) -- checking for errors

read the wiki next time.

[Tyrasuki]

lemmmy, does the privatekey have to be encoded or can it be just plain text?

[Lemmmy]

it will have to be encoded if it uses any non-ascii characters, or any of the following characters:

character	codepoint (hex)
(space)	20
"	22
#	23
$	24
%	25
&	26
+	2B
,	2C
/	2F
:	3A
;	3B
<	3C
=	3D
>	3E
?	3F
@	40

in other words, yes. always url-encode all user input.

local pay = http.post("http://krist.ceriat.net/transactions", "to=k5n6r931i1&privatekey=" .. textutils.urlEncode(privatekey) .. "&amount="..payamm.."&metadata=test").readAll()
print(pay) -- checking for errors

please take further issues to the CC forums, and not my repository. this is a place for bug reports, not programming help.