If I grab the JSON that's returned by the /users/show method, all forward slashes in URLs are escaped.
For example, the profile_image_url for my net_twitter id returns: http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter_production\/profile_images\/ 29624212\/ I originally found this when I noticed that something I was doing was RE-escaping the backslashes as \\ giving me: 'profile_image_url' => 'http:\\/\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\/twitter_production\\/profile_images\\/ 29624212\\/twitter_normal.jpg' I've fixed that part and it's no longer double escaping, but it makes me wonder why it's being escaped at all. I don't think JSON requires it. It certainly doesn't need escape in the body of an HTTP response. I can't imagine rails makes you do it. The only thing that I can think of is that it's escaped for the XML side of things, which makes sense, I guess. What's the scoop?
