curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string
#include <curl/curl.h> char *curl_easy_escape(CURL *curl, const char *string, int length);
curl_easy_escape(3) libcurl Manual curl_easy_escape(3)
NAME
curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
char *curl_easy_escape(CURL *curl, const char *string, int length);
DESCRIPTION
This function converts the given input string to a URL encoded string
and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that
are not a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL
escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
If length is set to 0 (zero), curl_easy_escape(3) uses strlen() on the
input string to find out the size. This function does not accept input
strings longer than CURL_MAX_INPUT_LENGTH (8 MB).
You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you are done with it.
ENCODING
libcurl is typically not aware of, nor does it care about, character
encodings. curl_easy_escape(3) encodes the data byte-by-byte into the
URL encoded version without knowledge or care for what particular char-
acter encoding the application or the receiving server may assume that
the data uses.
The caller of curl_easy_escape(3) must make sure that the data passed
in to the function is encoded correctly.
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
char *output = curl_easy_escape(curl, "data to convert", 15);
if(output) {
printf("Encoded: %s\n", output);
curl_free(output);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.15.4 and replaces the old curl_escape(3) function.
RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a null-terminated string or NULL if it failed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | web/curl |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
curl_easy_unescape(3), curl_free(3), RFC3986
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://curl.se/down-
load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.
libcurl 7.83.1 December 06, 2021 curl_easy_escape(3)