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.Dd $Mdocdate$
.Dt KHTTP_URLENCODE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm khttp_urlencode
.Nd URL encoding for kcgi
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libkcgi
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In stdarg.h
.In stdint.h
.In kcgi.h
.Ft "char *"
.Fo khttp_urlencode
.Fa "const char *cp"
.Fc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Percent-encodes a string
.Fa cp ,
usually for embedding in a URL, and returns the allocated result.
If passed a
.Dv NULL ,
returns an allocated empty string.
.Pp
The encoding uses capital-letter hex encoding.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Returns a newly-allocated string that must be freed with
.Xr free 3
or
.Dv NULL
if allocation fails.
.Pp
The deprecated form of this function,
.Fn kutil_urlencode ,
should no longer be used.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following table shows strings pre- and post-encoding.
.Pp
.TS
l l.
foo bar foo+bar
foo+bar foo%2Bbar
.TE
.Sh AUTHORS
Written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .