using API to download password encrypted files

[mordret]

Hi,

I use the following API call to let my sab download movies that are PW encrypted
url = sHost;
url += "/sabnzbd/api?mode=addurl";
url += "&apikey=" + sApiKey;
url += "&name=" + urlNzb;
url += "&nzbname=" + sMovieName;
url += "/" // <-- no matter how I encode this I get a plus sign
url += sPassword;

No matter how I econde the forward slash my sab will put a plus sign instead making the download fail.
Any idea?

thx

[shypike]

Use % code.
A slash would be %2F
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

[mordret]

Thanks shypike, however I also used %2F and it got replaced with "+".
I am running version: 0.6.15 is it possible that an upgrade solves the issue?

[shypike]

Thanks shypike, however I also used %2F and it got replaced with "+".

That's because a '/' cannot be part of a file name on any operating system.

[mordret]

Thanks for your reply. I finally solved the issue by loading the sab webinterface in an iframe and changing the + to a forward slash via javascript loool, well ugly perhaps but it does the trick

[afly]

would it be worth considering using a different character to denote the password? or interpret a / char as literal so it can be utilised

The api essentially doesn't support it at all as it stands

[shypike]

There was a bug in SABnzbd that "sanitized" passwords coming from the "nzbname" parameter.
This will be fixed in 0.7.17

[afly]

fantastic news

[mordret]

Great! that's good news indeed!