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NAME
curl_escape - URL encode a string
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
char *curl_escape(const char *string, int length);
DESCRIPTION
Obsolete function. Use curl_easy_escape(3) instead!
This function converts the given input string to a URL encoded string
and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that
are not a-z, A-Z or 0-9 are converted to their "URL escaped" version
(%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number).
If the length argument is set to 0, curl_escape(3) uses strlen() on
string to find out the size.
You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you are done with it.
PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects all supported protocols
EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
char *output = curl_escape("data to convert", 15);
if(output) {
printf("Encoded: %s\n", output);
curl_free(output);
}
}
HISTORY
Since 7.15.4, curl_easy_escape(3) should be used. This function might
be removed in a future release.
AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.1
RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a null-terminated string or NULL if it failed.
SEE ALSO
curl_free(3), curl_unescape(3)
libcurl 2024-12-22 curl_escape(3)