From bf76c7f6ec761eb10c4aece7068ac95f030d3ed8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:39:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow extended encoding in API

---
 src/api.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api.py b/src/api.py
index d6d0b266..c8612d60 100644
--- a/src/api.py
+++ b/src/api.py
@@ -650,8 +650,8 @@ class MySimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler):
             TTL = 4*24*60*60
         elif len(params) == 6:
             toAddress, fromAddress, subject, message, encodingType, TTL = params
-        if encodingType != 2:
-            raise APIError(6, 'The encoding type must be 2 because that is the only one this program currently supports.')
+        if encodingType not in [2, 3]:
+            raise APIError(6, 'The encoding type must be 2 or 3.')
         subject = self._decode(subject, "base64")
         message = self._decode(message, "base64")
         if len(subject + message) > (2 ** 18 - 500):