From 83bd0f2603e84c67de1b3289f9e4de9d567feb42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis Aros Illanes <luis.aros@arauco.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:26:53 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: prevent Aspen History query failure for tags with
 special characters

---
 tagreader/web_handlers.py | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tagreader/web_handlers.py b/tagreader/web_handlers.py
index 8f4de601..9ae8ff0b 100644
--- a/tagreader/web_handlers.py
+++ b/tagreader/web_handlers.py
@@ -194,14 +194,20 @@ def fetch(
         params: Optional[Union[str, Dict[str, str]]] = None,
         timeout: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> Dict:
-        res = self.session.get(
-            url,
-            params=params,
-            timeout=(
-                None,
-                timeout,
-            ),
-        )  # Noqa. Read timeout, No connect timeout.
+
+        if isinstance(params, str):
+            res = self.session.post(
+                url,
+                data=params.encode("utf-8"),
+                headers={"Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8"},
+                timeout=(None, timeout),
+            )
+        else:
+            res = self.session.get(
+                url,
+                params=params,
+                timeout=(None, timeout),
+            )  # Noqa. Read timeout, No connect timeout.
         res.raise_for_status()
 
         if len(res.text) == 0: