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Elucalidavah 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Digital signatures and how to avoid them

> "&" inside JSON strings but yours escapes it

What escaping of "&" inside JSON are you talking about? Some unholy mix of JSON and urlencode?

resonious 9 months ago [–]

Ruby on Rails turns "&" into "\u0026".

See rails/rails, activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb.

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