https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/error-when-editing-prefirewall-rules-related-to-descriptions/m-p/75069#M1209 <DIV><FONT color="black" face="Arial">When attempting to edit prefirewall rules I am reciving the below error. </FONT></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><FONT color="black" face="Arial">Message:</FONT> <FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">Error returned from Palo Alto Backend status: 18, Message: Malformed Request.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">If I remove the description tags from my xml the edit is succesful. The error is not very much help and I unable to determine what is in my descriptions that might be causing this. Can someone provide me with some advice on how to troubleshoot this further.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">Update:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Arial">I determined this was caused by one of the descriptions in our rules containing an "&amp;amp;", I had to write logic to convert that to a "%26amp;" in order for the edit to complete succesfuly</FONT><FONT face="Arial">.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:13:13 GMT keanesf 2016-03-24T20:13:13Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/error-when-editing-prefirewall-rules-related-to-descriptions/m-p/75069#M1209 <DIV><FONT color="black" face="Arial">When attempting to edit prefirewall rules I am reciving the below error. </FONT></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><FONT color="black" face="Arial">Message:</FONT> <FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">Error returned from Palo Alto Backend status: 18, Message: Malformed Request.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">If I remove the description tags from my xml the edit is succesful. The error is not very much help and I unable to determine what is in my descriptions that might be causing this. Can someone provide me with some advice on how to troubleshoot this further.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000" face="Arial">Update:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT color="#000000"><FONT face="Arial">I determined this was caused by one of the descriptions in our rules containing an "&amp;amp;", I had to write logic to convert that to a "%26amp;" in order for the edit to complete succesfuly</FONT><FONT face="Arial">.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:13:13 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/error-when-editing-prefirewall-rules-related-to-descriptions/m-p/75069#M1209 keanesf 2016-03-24T20:13:13Z