---- On do, 19 jan 2017 16:25:03 +0100 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote ---- > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:43 AM, geoffreydebelie <[email protected]> > wrote: > However, I wonder why > > https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=login&format=json > > returns > "logintoken": "2c69b789da89c2134de2e6c142523de05880cbf3+\\" > > instead of +\ at the end. > > 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. > > If you're parsing the JSON with custom regular expressions or the like, you > should really start using a proper JSON decoder. >
I was just copy pasting it into Postman :) Thanks for the information. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
