Currently discourse unicode usernames does not work with the api Is it possible to fix this bug? [1693932591022]

[image] 运思曾: because in the discourse on the receiving end did not restore The headers need to be encoded as UTF-8, not with URI encoding.

1: the header cannot contain Chinese characters 2: utf8 refers to the content in the post, not the header 3: Discourse is not decoded by UrlEncode, it will show that the username does not exist. The following test data is provided https://www.baowei.ink/posts.json { "title": "标题标题标题标题标题", "raw": "标题标题标题标题标题标题标题标题标题标题", "category": 10, } Pass Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Api-Key: «redacted» Api-Username: system Fail Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Api-Key: «redacted» Api-Username: 风之旅人 Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 Api-Key: «redacted» Api-Username: %E9%A3%8E%E4%B9%8B%E6%97%85%E4%BA%BA Thank you! Michael Brown

You’ll want to rotate that API key immediately @zengyunsi, consider it leaked. … though I can confirm it does work when you encode the headers with UTF-8: In [1]: import requests In [2]: api_key = '«redacted»' In [3]: r = requests.get('https://www.baowei.ink/posts.json', headers={'api-key': api_key, 'api-username': '风之旅人'.encode()}) In [4]: r.status_code Out[4]: 200 In [5]: len(r.json()['latest_posts']) Out[5]: 19

Is this the case and can you provide an example, thanks! Content-Type: Application/json; charset=utf-8 Accept: Application/json; charset=utf-8 Api-Key: f9c13aafa9b21baf778161bff66a62533ba650b6e4542e3e9788e98c55ded869 Api-Username: \xe9\xa3\x8e\xe4\xb9\x8b\xe6\x97\x85\xe4\xba\xba Always prompt You are not permitted to view the requested resource. The API username or key is invalid

I can confirmed that below example would work: $ curl -s -L \ -H 'api-key: 60834ccb8eda28cf17bab8efbbb2fbf874eb8b5a75ff17ddbd2346eb292881a0' \ -H 'api-username: 测试用户' \ http://localhost:4200/u/%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7/emails.json {"email":"discobot_email","secondary_emails":[],"unconfirmed_emails":[],"associated_accounts":[]} And without api-* header: $ curl -s -L \ http://localhost:4200/u/%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7/emails.json {"errors":["You need to be logged in to do that."],"error_type":"not_logged_in"} Python requests example: import requests api_key = '60834ccb8eda28cf17bab8efbbb2fbf874eb8b5a75ff17ddbd2346eb292881a0' api_username = '测试用户' api_endpoint = 'http://localhost:4200/u/%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7/emails.json' r = requests.get(api_endpoint, headers={ 'api-key': api_key, 'api-username': api_username.encode()}) print(r) [image] 运思曾: Api-Username: \xe9\xa3\x8e\xe4\xb9\x8b\xe6\x97\x85\xe4\xba\xba Seems your api-username does not encode appropriately >>> '风之旅人'.encode() b'\xe9\xa3\x8e\xe4\xb9\x8b\xe6\x97\x85\xe4\xba\xba' [Jesse Webb] What does the 'b' character do in front of a string literal? python, string, unicode, binary asked by Jesse Webb on 06:14PM - 07 Jun 11 UTC

Thank you all, I’m going to try, if you can use the Chinese user name to call the api operation is more convenient, thank you!

[image] This is a bit weird and I can’t use the api normally either

It much likely an issue with the API key scope.

:sweat_smile:我试了下好像也不行不过我不会Python 一样的提示··

Does the same call with an ASCII username work? (I’m guessing no and that’s what you mean by “I can’t use the API normally”) If so, does the website have another proxy in front of it or is it using the standard install?

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Lhc_fl (Linca) September 11, 2023, 2:36am 27

It is indeed behind the proxy. I’m not sure, maybe that had an impact?

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