Updating Page Body - Problem with the ampersand (&)

Question

Hello all,

I'm trying to update a page body, using "https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/pages.html#method.wiki_pages_api.update_front_page".

It works, but if the body contains an ampersand (&) it will ignore the block with that sign and any blocks after that. No error but a truncated body as result.

Any thoughts/help are appreciated.

Chris · Answer

Hi @HosseinErfani,

I assume the body you're trying to send is html code, correct?  Are you HTML encoding characters like the &?  I believe a straight & character in HTML code is considered invalid, so if you're just sending that by itself, thats' probably why Canvas is choking on the rest of the input, but it's hard to say with 100% certainty without seeing exactly what you're trying to send.

-Chris