Special Characters for Confluence Rest API content

Question

When using the confluence REST API and posting HTML for the content when I have a > or < in the content it errors out. When I read a page content with a > or < I see it come out as < and > respectively. When I switch my content post to use the same representation, they show up literally as < and > in the page instead of the < and >.

Jordan Carson · Answer

I know this is an old post, however I am facing the same issue. Trying to hit the following: https:///confluence/rest/api/content?spaceKey={SPACEKEY}&title={TITLE}&expand=body.storage" When the title includes a ">" or "<" it completely breaks/errors, however it does work when these symbols are encoded. * > is %3E * < is %3C I cannot find anything in the documentation on special characters, is there a list of which characters that must be encoded for the API to not error out?

Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority · Answer

What content type are you submitting your request body as?