XML RPC link posting problems

PHP
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Does any one know why when posting to wp via curl and xml rpc the url would be posted to the blog with escaped quotes?

Ie post a link in the body and the link ends up like

<a href=\“http:/mysite.com.com\”>Link</a>

even if i give the special characters i still wind up with

<a href=\&quothttp://mysite.com\&quot>Link</a>

can any one tell me how to get rid of the backslashes?

2

so there is no way without removing the slashes with str replace?