[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7771: XMLRPC api stripping leading angle brackets

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#7771: XMLRPC api stripping leading angle brackets
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 Reporter:  midrangeman  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  XML-RPC      |     Version:  2.6.1    
 Severity:  major        |    Keywords:           
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 When posting from an application that uses the wordpress xmlrpc api,
 leading angle brackets are being stripped from the post.

 The following was posted from the Wordpress iPhone app, but similar
 results have been observed with Flickr posting and other apps...

 {{{
 p>a href="!http://beta.geekyramblings.org/wp-
 content/uploads/2008/09/p-640-480-2fd9116d-
 5703-4e8b-b72c-2605beab02b5.jpeg">img src="!http://beta.geekyramblings.org
 /wp-content/uploads
 /2008/09/p-640-480-2fd9116d-5703-4e8b-b72c-2605beab02b5.jpeg" alt=""
 width="225" height="300"
 class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" />/a>/p>
 }}}

 This seems to have manifest in version 2.6.2.

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