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>.
September 15,
2024 OpenBSD 7.5