Escaped characters in environment variables are not escaped in requests
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Description
### Expected Behavior
With the following environment:
```json
{
"backslash": "\\"
}
```
And the following request body:
```json
{
"from variable": "{{ _.backslash }}",
"from raw text": "\\"
}
```
The request body that is sent should be:
```json
{
"from variable": "\\",
"from raw text": "\\"
}
```
### Actual Behavior
The request body that is actually sent is:
```json
{
"from variable": "\",
"from raw text": "\\"
}
```
### Reproduction Steps
1. Go to https://webhook.site and copy your unique URL to clipboard
2. Use this URL in a new request in Insomnia
3. Define this environment:
```json
{
"backslash": "\\"
}
```
4. Define this JSON request body:
```json
{
"from variable": "{{ _.backslash }}",
"from raw text": "\\"
}
```
5. Send the request
6. Go back to https://webhook.site and observe the raw content of the request you just sent
### Is there an existing issue for this?
- [X] I have searched the [issue tracker](https://www.github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues) for this problem.
### Additional Information
_No response_
### Insomnia Version
2021.7.2
### What operating system are you using?
Other Linux
### Operating System Version
Arch Linux
### Installation method
[insomnia-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/insomnia-bin/) package from AUR
### Last Known Working Insomnia version
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue using the webhook.site request, the shown environment variable, and JSON request body, then trace how the variable is interpolated before the request is sent. Done means the variable-based backslash is transmitted with the same escaping as the equivalent raw JSON text.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100