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curl_easy_unescape(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual curl_easy_unescape(3)

curl_easy_unescape - URL decode a string

#include <curl/curl.h>
char *curl_easy_unescape(CURL *curl, const char *input,

int inlength, int *outlength);

This function converts the URL encoded string input to a "plain string" and returns that in an allocated memory area. All input characters that are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number) are converted to their binary versions.

If the length argument is set to 0 (zero), curl_easy_unescape(3) uses strlen() on input to find out the size.

If outlength is non-NULL, the function writes the length of the returned string in the integer it points to. This allows proper handling even for strings containing %00. Since this is a pointer to an int type, it can only return a value up to INT_MAX so no longer string can be returned in this parameter.

Since 7.82.0, the curl parameter is ignored. Prior to that there was per-handle character conversion support for some old operating systems such as TPF, but it was otherwise ignored.

You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you are done with it.

This functionality affects all supported protocols

int main(void)
{

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
int decodelen;
char *decoded = curl_easy_unescape(curl, "%63%75%72%6c", 12, &decodelen);
if(decoded) {
/* do not assume printf() works on the decoded data */
printf("Decoded: ");
/* ... */
curl_free(decoded);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
} }

Added in curl 7.15.4

A pointer to a null-terminated string or NULL if it failed.

curl_easy_escape(3), curl_url_get(3)

2025-06-17 libcurl

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