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dannyman
dannyman

Reputation: 681

How do I post an ampersand via the Slack hook using Curl?

How do I post an ampersand via the Slack hook with curl?

$ curl -4 -X POST --data 'payload={"text": "amp;"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/aaa/bbb/ccc
ok

$ curl -4 -X POST --data 'payload={"text": "&"}'
https://hooks.slack.com/services/aaa/bbb/ccc 
invalid_payload

$ curl -4 -X POST --data 'payload={"text": "<>"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/aaa/bbb/ccc
ok

$ curl -4 -X POST --data 'payload={"text": "<&>"}'
https://hooks.slack.com/services/aaa/bbb/ccc 
invalid_payload

I am really trying to post something like Message <https://nagios?host=foo&type=1|link here> but I can not for the life of me get that & accepted.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 557

Answers (1)

dannyman
dannyman

Reputation: 681

A colleague figured out that the workaround is to post %26:

curl -4 -X POST --data 'payload={"text": "%26"}' https://hooks.slack.com/services/aaa/bbb/ccc
ok

This renders an & in Slack and can be used to construct a URL.

Reference: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues/2734

Upvotes: 1

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