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4 .TH curl_escape 3 "6 March 2002" "libcurl 7.9" "libcurl Manual"
6 curl_escape - URL encodes the given string
8 .B #include <curl/curl.h>
10 .BI "char *curl_escape( char *" url ", int "length " );"
13 Obsolete function. Use \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP instead!
15 This function will convert the given input string to an URL encoded string and
16 return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z,
17 A-Z or 0-9 will be converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a
18 two-digit hexadecimal number).
20 If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_escape() will use strlen() on the
21 input 'url' string to find out the size.
23 You must curl_free() the returned string when you're done with it.
25 Since 7.15.4, \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP should be used. This function will
26 be removed in a future release.
28 A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
30 .BR curl_unescape "(3), " curl_free "(3), " RFC 2396