im 99% sure thats why u get a 404 if you try to download some finalpacks. i didnt check every battle but looks like every ohb with ####### in the title is affected

there might be some other characters that break it too. i'll see if i can deduce any others.

botb gets pounded

that's lood

commas also do it:

https://battleofthebits.com/arena/OHC/4333/

#commacore

this is why you cant use C#
get it

The finalpack can be restored by using a %23 in the URL in place of the wrong replacement characters where the # was. For example: https://battleofthebits.com/disk/battle/00004645/OHC04645%20OHB%3735113%20-%20draw%20for%20strobe!%20finalpack.zip is a broken link, whereas https://battleofthebits.com/disk/battle/00004645/OHC04645 OHB%23113 - draw for strobe! finalpack.zip works fine.

hmm, so it's encoding as %3735. interestingly, the ascii value for % is 37, and for # is 35:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/http/http_url_encoding.htm

so it looks like maybe it's putting a % in front ("%#"), then converting those special characters to ascii ("3735") [note: not the same as the % code, because that's in hex], and then adding an extra % in front ("%3735").

that's my best guess at least :U

ok, think i got this figured out
copied the encoding code from entry files to finalpacks and that fixed the # issue but not the , issue
so i decided to simply load the battle from the URL data (battle_id) and forward the pack from there ignoring the filename in the URL altogether
let me know if i made any new breakage!