title: Why does the Groovy JSONBuilder escape slashes in URLs?
body: <p>I am writing a Groovy script that needs to POST JSON to a URL. I have noticed a problem were all elements in my JSON that contains a '/' are changed to '\/' by the JSON Builder. Is there a way to stop this?</p>
  
  <p>This is using Groovy 1.8. Here is a simple example and its output: </p>
  
  <pre><code>def json = new JsonBuilder()
      json.reply {
      result 'http://google.ie/testing'
  }
  
  println json.toString()
  
  Output -&gt; {"reply":{"result":"http:\/\/google.ie\/testing"}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>