Hi guys,

I have a problem with signed makeRequest calls using POST data and special chars like quotation marks. I have a form that lets a user enter a url and a description. I use jQuery for serializing the form. this is my code:

var params = {};

params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.AUTHORIZATION] = gadgets.io.AuthorizationType.SIGNED; params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = gadgets.io.ContentType.JSON; params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.METHOD] = gadgets.io.MethodType.POST; var data = $('#transload_form').formSerialize(); if (DEBUG) console.log(data); params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.POST_DATA] = data + '&action=transload';

makeCachedRequest(INTERFACE_URL, transloadCallback, params, 0);

makeCachedRequest looks like this:

function makeCachedRequest(url, callback, params, refreshInterval) { var ts = new Date().getTime(); var sep = "?"; if (refreshInterval && refreshInterval > 0) { ts = Math.floor(ts / (refreshInterval * 1000)); } if (url.indexOf("?") > -1) { sep = "&"; } //network_name is a global var containing either "myspace" or "orkut" url = [ url, sep, "network=", network_name, "&nocache=", ts ].join(""); gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, callback, params); }

now all this works like a charm with ASCII only characters, ie when the file description reads My great file

but when it reads A picture of my cute cat "Darth Vader"

the oauth validation fails.

jQuery's formSerialize urlencodes special chars so that " becomes %22.

I've tracked this down this far: in the console.log firebug output the field value of bla"blubb becomes bla%22blubb which seems right. The request sent to the gmodules gadgets proxy is the same (tldesc=bla%22blubb), so that seems fine, too. When I output the $_REQUEST on my server like this:

$payload['orig_request'] = implode("&", $_REQUEST); print(json_encode($payload));

I get this back in my json response string: bla\\\\\\\"blubb

A couple of backslashes too many, I guess.

Is this related to this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/issues/detail?id=2 ??

Am I missing something here?

Thanks for your help!

- Johannes