{"id":1318,"date":"2025-09-03T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:38:42","slug":"workflow-request-validation-fails-if-contact-has-special-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/workflow-request-validation-fails-if-contact-has-special-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Workflow request validation fails if contact has special characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I am facing a very weird and edge-case problem.<\/P><P>I implemented the HS request verification v3 in PHP, it is working fine until the username or any contact data (firstname, lastname, city, street, etc) contains special characters, specifically from German\/Nordic\/Norwegian\/Danish\/Finnish\/Swedish languages. Examples: \u0151\u0171\u00e4\u00e5.\u00a0<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><P>In some cases, for unknown reasons, I got a payload that contains a Unicode version of the special characters (u00&#8230;)\u00a0<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><P>When the code tries to validate the payload (and we ain&#8217;t talking about how poorly designed the entire header validation)\u00a0<BR \/><BR \/>I suspect that there is some trick or encoding\/converting required for the payload to have the same as at their side when it gets hashes\/signed, but I did not find any official material related to this kind of issue other than &#8220;Ask your customers not to use special characters\/native characters.&#8221;<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><P>Has anyone else faced this problem with the request verification?<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><P>\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am facing a very weird and edge-case problem.I implemented the HS request verification v3 in PHP, it is working fine until the username or any contact data (firstname, lastname, city, street, etc) contains special characters, specifically from German\/Nordic\/Norwegian\/Danish\/Finnish\/Swedish languages. Examples: \u0151\u0171\u00e4\u00e5.\u00a0\u00a0In some cases, for unknown reasons, I got a payload that contains a Unicode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}