oracular (3) libcurl-url.3.gz

NAME

       libcurl-url - URL interface overview

DESCRIPTION

       The URL interface provides functions for parsing and generating URLs.

INCLUDE

       You still only include <curl/curl.h> in your code.

CREATE

       Create a handle that holds URL info and resources with curl_url(3):
         CURLU *h = curl_url();

CLEANUP

       When done with it, clean it up with curl_url_cleanup(3)
         curl_url_cleanup(h);

DUPLICATE

       When you need a copy of a handle, just duplicate it with curl_url_dup(3):
         CURLU *nh = curl_url_dup(h);

PARSING

       By  setting  a URL to the handle with curl_url_set(3), the URL is parsed and stored in the handle. If the
       URL is not syntactically correct it returns an error instead.
         rc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL,
                           "https://example.com:449/foo/bar?name=moo", 0);

       The zero in the fourth argument is a bitmask for changing specific features.

       If successful, this stores the URL in its individual parts within the handle.

REDIRECT

       When a handle already contains info about a URL, setting a relative URL makes it "redirect" to that.
         rc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL, "../test?another", 0);

GET URL

       The CURLU handle represents a URL and you can easily extract that with curl_url_get(3):
         char *url;
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_URL, &url, 0);
         curl_free(url);
       The zero in the fourth argument is a bitmask for changing specific features.

GET PARTS

       When a URL has been parsed or parts have been set, you can extract those pieces from the  handle  at  any
       time.

         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_FRAGMENT, &fragment, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_HOST, &host, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PASSWORD, &password, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PATH, &path, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PORT, &port, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_QUERY, &query, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_SCHEME, &scheme, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_USER, &user, 0);
         rc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_ZONEID, &zoneid, 0);

       Extracted parts are not URL decoded unless the user also asks for it with the CURLU_URLDECODE flag set in
       the fourth bitmask argument.

       Remember to free the returned string with curl_free(3) when you are done with it!

SET PARTS

       A user set individual URL parts, either after having parsed a full URL or instead of parsing such.

         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_FRAGMENT, "anchor", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_HOST, "www.example.com", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_PASSWORD, "doe", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_PATH, "/index.html", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_PORT, "443", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_QUERY, "name=john", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_SCHEME, "https", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_USER, "john", 0);
         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_ZONEID, "eth0", 0);

       Set parts are not URL encoded unless the user asks for it with the CURLU_URLENCODE flag.

CURLU_APPENDQUERY

       An application can append a string to the right end of the query part with the CURLU_APPENDQUERY flag  to
       curl_url_set(3).

       Imagine  a  handle  that  holds  the  URL "https://example.com/?shoes=2". An application can then add the
       string "hat=1" to the query part like this:

         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_QUERY, "hat=1", CURLU_APPENDQUERY);

       It notices the lack of an ampersand (&) separator and injects one, and the handle's full URL then  equals
       "https://example.com/?shoes=2&hat=1".

       The  appended  string can of course also get URL encoded on add, and if asked to URL encode, the encoding
       process skips the '=' character. For example, append "candy=N&N" to what we already have, and URL  encode
       it to deal with the ampersand in the data:

         rc = curl_url_set(urlp, CURLUPART_QUERY, "candy=N&N",
                           CURLU_APPENDQUERY | CURLU_URLENCODE);

       Now the URL looks like

         https://example.com/?shoes=2&hat=1&candy=N%26N

NOTES

       A URL with a literal IPv6 address can be parsed even when IPv6 support is not enabled.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_URL(3),  curl_url(3),  curl_url_cleanup(3),  curl_url_dup(3),  curl_url_get(3),  curl_url_set(3),
       curl_url_strerror(3)