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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 index 7c8c658d2..da2b38221 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string .BI "char *curl_easy_escape( CURL *" curl ", char *" string ", int "length " );" .ad .SH DESCRIPTION -This function converts the given input \fBstring\fP to an URL encoded string +This function converts the given input \fIstring\fP to a URL encoded string and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number). -If the \fBlength\fP argument is set to 0 (zero), \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP -uses strlen() on the input \fBurl\fP to find out the size. +If \fIlength\fP is set to 0 (zero), \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP uses strlen() on +the input \fIstring\fP to find out the size. You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it. .SH AVAILABILITY diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 index d55914308..27e4510b1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.3 @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ used by HTML forms. Change Content-Type with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP. Using \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP implies \fICURLOPT_POST(3)\fP. +You can use \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP to url-encode your data, if necessary. It +returns a pointer to an encoded string that can be passed as \fIpostdata\fP. + If you want to do a zero-byte POST, you need to set \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE(3)\fP explicitly to zero, as simply setting \fICURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3)\fP to NULL or "" just effectively disables the |