KHTTP_URLENCODE(3)
Library Functions Manual
KHTTP_URLENCODE(3)
NAME
khttp_urlencode —
URL encoding for kcgi
LIBRARY
library “libkcgi”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <kcgi.h>
char *
khttp_urlencode(const char
*cp);
DESCRIPTION
Percent-encodes a string cp, usually for
embedding in a URL, and returns the allocated result. If passed a
NULL, returns an allocated empty string.
The encoding uses capital-letter hex encoding.
RETURN VALUES
Returns a newly-allocated string that must be freed with
free(3) or
NULL if allocation fails.
The deprecated form of this function,
kutil_urlencode(), should no longer be used.
EXAMPLES
The following table shows strings pre- and post-encoding.
| foo bar | foo+bar |
| foo+bar | foo%2Bbar |
AUTHORS
Written by Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>.
November 18,
2025 OpenBSD 7.5