http geturl bracket issue [solved]

Elfriede · Post by **Elfriede** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:49 am

Hi everyone

i do face a small problem, where i need some help

       set token [::http::geturl http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/$shownumber?embed[]=nextepisode&embed[]=previousepisode -timeout 4000]

when i open this url in my browser everything is fine, but the eggdrop seems to have a problem with those brackets. Because saving the output to file will result in outputting the previous episode only. Im guessing this has something to do with those []. Anyone has an idea how to solve that?
thanks for helping

Madalin · Post by **Madalin** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:00 pm

Use \[ and \] instead of [ and ]

Elfriede · Post by **Elfriede** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:36 pm

when i try that i get: Illegal characters in URL path

Madalin · Post by **Madalin** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:55 pm

$ into \$

or just use set token [::http::geturl "http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/$shownumber ... ousepisode" -timeout 4000]

Elfriede · Post by **Elfriede** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 1:02 pm

its not caused by the $
its [] but adding "" doesnt help either :/

Post by **nml375** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 2:12 pm

[] are used for command substitutions, and will cause issues with your code. Further, http URI's can't contain literal [], so you'll have to use %-substitutions; replace [ with %91, and ] with %93

Edit:
Accidentally wrote the decimal values as opposed to the hexadecimal ones;
"[" => "%5b"
"]" => "%5d"

That said, using ::http::formatQuery is indeed a better approach, as suggested by OP

Elfriede · Post by **Elfriede** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:14 pm

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http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/$shownumber?embed%91%93=nextepisode&embed%91%93=previousepisode

If i change like that; doesn't work :/

edit:

Thanks for all the help - could fix it by my own. If someone's interested:

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set test "http://api.tvmaze.com/shows/$shownumber?[::http::formatQuery embed\[\] nextepisode embed\[\] previousepisode]"