curl_escape - URL encodes the given string
#include <curl/curl.h> char *curl_escape(const char *url, int length);
curl_escape(3) libcurl Manual curl_escape(3)
NAME
curl_escape - URL encodes the given string
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
char *curl_escape(const char *url, int length);
DESCRIPTION
Obsolete function. Use curl_easy_escape(3) instead!
This function will convert the given input string to an URL encoded
string and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters
that are not a-z, A-Z or 0-9 will be converted to their "URL escaped"
version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
If the lengthf argument is set to 0, curl_escape() will use strlen() on
the input url string to find out the size.
You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you are done with it.
EXAMPLE
char *output = curl_escape("data to convert", 15);
if(output) {
printf("Encoded: %s\n", output);
curl_free(output);
}
AVAILABILITY
Since 7.15.4, curl_easy_escape(3) should be used. This function will be
removed in a future release.
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_unescape(3), curl_free(3), RFC2396
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 November 26, 2021 curl_escape(3)