scan_urlencoded3
Decode urlencoded data
Usage
#include <libowfat/textcode.h>
size_t scan_urlencoded(const char *src,char *dest,size_t* destlen);
Overview
scan_urlencoded decodes urlencoded data from src into dest. Decoding stops when it encounters any invalid input characters (including ' ', '?' and '&').
It will then write the number of decoded bytes in dest into *destlen, and return the number of bytes decoded from src.
Note that the plus character is handled differently depending on whether we are encoding the query part or the path (application/x-www-form-urlencoded). In "http://example.com/a+b?c+d", only the second plus can be decoded as a space character. If you want + decoded to space, use scan_urlencoded2.
dest can be NULL. destlen can be NULL. dest can be src.
Return value
scan_urlencoded returns the number of bytes successfully scanned and processed from src.
Examples
scan_urlencoded("foo%3ebar",buf,&i) -> return 9, i=7, buf="foo.bar"
scan_urlencoded("foo+bar",buf,&i) -> return 7, i=7, buf="foo+bar"
scan_urlencoded2("foo+bar",buf,&i) -> return 7, i=7, buf="foo bar"
Releases
Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).