//If I read the quest correctly and you want to do this yourself, without using curl I think I have a solution (sssuming UTF-) and I think this is a conformant and portable way of URL encoding query strings:
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
namespace {
std::string encimpl(std::string::value_type v) {
if (isalnum(v))
return std::string()+v;
std::ostringstream enc;
enc << '%' << std::setw() << std::setfill('') << std::hex << std::uppercase << int(static_cast(v));
return enc.str();
}
}
std::string urlencode(const std::string& url) {
// Find the start of the query string
const std::string::const_iterator start = std::find(url.begin(), url.end(), '?');
// If there isn't one there's nothing to do!
if (start == url.end())
return url;
// store the modified query string
std::string qstr;
std::transform(start+, url.end(),
// Append the transform result to qstr
boost::make_function_output_iterator(boost::bind(static_cast<:string std::string>(&std::string::append),&qstr,_1)),
encimpl);
return std::string(url.begin(), start+) + qstr;
}
It has no non-standard dependencies other than boost and if you don't like the boost dependency it's not that hard to remove.
I tested it using:
int main() {
const char *testurls[] = {"http://foo.com/bar?abc<>de??90 210fg!\"$%",
"http://google.com",
"http://www.unicode.com/example?großpösna"};
std::copy(testurls, &testurls[sizeof(testurls)/sizeof(*testurls)],
std::ostream_iterator<:string>(std::cout,"\n"));
std::cout << "encode as: " << std::endl;
std::transform(testurls, &testurls[sizeof(testurls)/sizeof(*testurls)],
std::ostream_iterator<:string>(std::cout,"\n"),
std::ptr_fun(urlencode));
}
Which all seemed to work:
http://foo.com/bar?abc<>de??90 210fg!"$%
http://google.com
http://www.unicode.com/example?großpösna
Becomes:
http://foo.com/bar?abc%3C%3Ede%3F%3F90%20%20%20210fg%21%22%24%25
http://google.com
http://www.unicode.com/example?gro%C3%9Fp%C3%B6sna
Which squares with these examples