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After Update problems with special characters("ü" in UTF8) in xml channel names

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HTTP Data Advanced Sensor with xml result of external URL Request.

xml Channel Name "gültig" were accepted for years and serveral PRTG Versions. Last PRTG Version without Problems: 22.2.76.1705.

After the update a new channel is added to PRTG and displayed as "g?ltig" - and the old channel "gültig" is not updated anymore.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<prtg>
...
<result>
<channel>gültig</channel>
<value>80</value>
<FLOAT>0</FLOAT>
<CustomUnit>Tage</CustomUnit>
</result>
...
</prtg>

http-data-advanced-sensor special-characters xml

Created on Sep 7, 2022 8:41:04 AM



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Hi Georg,

I recreated the issue with this output. It seems that our update of the HTTP engine changed it a bit. To get back the ü you can change the channel name to g&uuml;ltig. This should encode the ü in the right way.


Kind regards

Felix Wiesneth - Team Tech Support

Created on Sep 9, 2022 12:22:58 PM by  Felix Wiesneth [Paessler Support]




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