bartkessels/GetIt

Passing newline, "\n", in Key Value Pair

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kmeyerhofer commented

I'm trying to pass a newline character as a Form Data text value and I'm unable to stop GetIt from escaping the \n. My program shows the parameter sent from GetIt as displaying \\n.

I've tried the following:

  • \\n which gets expanded to \\\\n
  • \"\n\" which gets expanded to \\"\\n\\"
  • %0D%0A which stays the same.

How can I pass a newline character as a form data text key value pair?

Thank you.

bartkessels commented

Hey @kmeyerhofer,

I've tried recreating the problem but it doesnt occur when I use a small PHP test script

<?php

print_r($_REQUEST);

This shows the \n character as \n, could you provide a small portion of code in which GetIt doesn't escape the character?

kmeyerhofer commented

Thanks for replying @bartkessels.
I am using the ruby framework Sinatra and I believe there is an underlying escaping going on at the framework level.
I'm going to close the issue and work on looking for a solution in ruby.
Thanks for looking into it.