Does anyone know of any good C++ code that does this?
I faced the encoding half of this problem the other day. Unhappy with the available options, and after taking a look at this C sample code, i decided to roll my own C++ url-encode function:
#include <cctype>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
string url_encode(const string &value) {
ostringstream escaped;
escaped.fill('0');
escaped << hex;
for (string::const_iterator i = value.begin(), n = value.end(); i != n; ++i) {
string::value_type c = (*i);
// Keep alphanumeric and other accepted characters intact
if (isalnum(c) || c == '-' || c == '_' || c == '.' || c == '~') {
escaped << c;
continue;
}
// Any other characters are percent-encoded
escaped << uppercase;
escaped << '%' << setw(2) << int((unsigned char) c);
escaped << nouppercase;
}
return escaped.str();
}
The implementation of the decode function is left as an exercise to the reader. :P
Answering my own question...
libcurl has curl_easy_escape for encoding.
For decoding, curl_easy_unescape
string urlDecode(string &SRC) {
string ret;
char ch;
int i, ii;
for (i=0; i<SRC.length(); i++) {
if (int(SRC[i])==37) {
sscanf(SRC.substr(i+1,2).c_str(), "%x", &ii);
ch=static_cast<char>(ii);
ret+=ch;
i=i+2;
} else {
ret+=SRC[i];
}
}
return (ret);
}
not the best, but working fine ;-)
cpp-netlib has functions
namespace boost {
namespace network {
namespace uri {
inline std::string decoded(const std::string &input);
inline std::string encoded(const std::string &input);
}
}
}
they allow to encode and decode URL strings very easy.
Ordinarily adding '%' to the int value of a char will not work when encoding, the value is supposed to the the hex equivalent. e.g '/' is '%2F' not '%47'.
I think this is the best and concise solutions for both url encoding and decoding (No much header dependencies).
string urlEncode(string str){
string new_str = "";
char c;
int ic;
const char* chars = str.c_str();
char bufHex[10];
int len = strlen(chars);
for(int i=0;i<len;i++){
c = chars[i];
ic = c;
// uncomment this if you want to encode spaces with +
/*if (c==' ') new_str += '+';
else */if (isalnum(c) || c == '-' || c == '_' || c == '.' || c == '~') new_str += c;
else {
sprintf(bufHex,"%X",c);
if(ic < 16)
new_str += "%0";
else
new_str += "%";
new_str += bufHex;
}
}
return new_str;
}
string urlDecode(string str){
string ret;
char ch;
int i, ii, len = str.length();
for (i=0; i < len; i++){
if(str[i] != '%'){
if(str[i] == '+')
ret += ' ';
else
ret += str[i];
}else{
sscanf(str.substr(i + 1, 2).c_str(), "%x", &ii);
ch = static_cast<char>(ii);
ret += ch;
i = i + 2;
}
}
return ret;
}
CGICC includes methods to do url encode and decode. form_urlencode and form_urldecode
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Stumbled upon this question when was looking for fast, modern, platform independent and elegant solution. Didnt like any of above, cpp-netlib would be the winner but it has horrific memory vulnerability in "decoded" function. So I came up with boost's spirit qi/karma solution.
namespace bsq = boost::spirit::qi;
namespace bk = boost::spirit::karma;
bsq::int_parser<unsigned char, 16, 2, 2> hex_byte;
template <typename InputIterator>
struct unescaped_string
: bsq::grammar<InputIterator, std::string(char const *)> {
unescaped_string() : unescaped_string::base_type(unesc_str) {
unesc_char.add("+", ' ');
unesc_str = *(unesc_char | "%" >> hex_byte | bsq::char_);
}
bsq::rule<InputIterator, std::string(char const *)> unesc_str;
bsq::symbols<char const, char const> unesc_char;
};
template <typename OutputIterator>
struct escaped_string : bk::grammar<OutputIterator, std::string(char const *)> {
escaped_string() : escaped_string::base_type(esc_str) {
esc_str = *(bk::char_("a-zA-Z0-9_.~-") | "%" << bk::right_align(2,0)[bk::hex]);
}
bk::rule<OutputIterator, std::string(char const *)> esc_str;
};
The usage of above as following:
std::string unescape(const std::string &input) {
std::string retVal;
retVal.reserve(input.size());
typedef std::string::const_iterator iterator_type;
char const *start = "";
iterator_type beg = input.begin();
iterator_type end = input.end();
unescaped_string<iterator_type> p;
if (!bsq::parse(beg, end, p(start), retVal))
retVal = input;
return retVal;
}
std::string escape(const std::string &input) {
typedef std::back_insert_iterator<std::string> sink_type;
std::string retVal;
retVal.reserve(input.size() * 3);
sink_type sink(retVal);
char const *start = "";
escaped_string<sink_type> g;
if (!bk::generate(sink, g(start), input))
retVal = input;
return retVal;
}
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EDIT01: fixed the zero padding stuff - special thanks to Hartmut Kaiser
EDIT02: Live on CoLiRu
Inspired by xperroni I wrote a decoder. Thank you for the pointer.
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
char from_hex(char ch) {
return isdigit(ch) ? ch - '0' : tolower(ch) - 'a' + 10;
}
string url_decode(string text) {
char h;
ostringstream escaped;
escaped.fill('0');
for (auto i = text.begin(), n = text.end(); i != n; ++i) {
string::value_type c = (*i);
if (c == '%') {
if (i[1] && i[2]) {
h = from_hex(i[1]) << 4 | from_hex(i[2]);
escaped << h;
i += 2;
}
} else if (c == '+') {
escaped << ' ';
} else {
escaped << c;
}
}
return escaped.str();
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
string msg = "J%C3%B8rn!";
cout << msg << endl;
string decodemsg = url_decode(msg);
cout << decodemsg << endl;
return 0;
}
edit: Removed unneeded cctype and iomainip includes.
Adding a follow-up to Bill's recommendation for using libcurl: great suggestion, and to be updated:
after 3 years, the curl_escape function is deprecated, so for future use it's better to use curl_easy_escape.
I ended up on this question when searching for an api to decode url in a win32 c++ app. Since the question doesn't quite specify platform assuming windows isn't a bad thing.
InternetCanonicalizeUrl is the API for windows programs. More info here
LPTSTR lpOutputBuffer = new TCHAR[1];
DWORD dwSize = 1;
BOOL fRes = ::InternetCanonicalizeUrl(strUrl, lpOutputBuffer, &dwSize, ICU_DECODE | ICU_NO_ENCODE);
DWORD dwError = ::GetLastError();
if (!fRes && dwError == ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER)
{
delete lpOutputBuffer;
lpOutputBuffer = new TCHAR[dwSize];
fRes = ::InternetCanonicalizeUrl(strUrl, lpOutputBuffer, &dwSize, ICU_DECODE | ICU_NO_ENCODE);
if (fRes)
{
//lpOutputBuffer has decoded url
}
else
{
//failed to decode
}
if (lpOutputBuffer !=NULL)
{
delete [] lpOutputBuffer;
lpOutputBuffer = NULL;
}
}
else
{
//some other error OR the input string url is just 1 char and was successfully decoded
}
InternetCrackUrl (here) also seems to have flags to specify whether to decode url
I couldn't find a URI decode/unescape here that also decodes 2 and 3 byte sequences. Contributing my own high performance version, that on-the-fly converts the c sting input to a wstring:
#include <string>
const char HEX2DEC[55] =
{
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1,
-1,10,11,12, 13,14,15,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1,
-1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1,
-1,10,11,12, 13,14,15
};
#define __x2d__(s) HEX2DEC[*(s)-48]
#define __x2d2__(s) __x2d__(s) << 4 | __x2d__(s+1)
std::wstring decodeURI(const char * s) {
unsigned char b;
std::wstring ws;
while (*s) {
if (*s == '%')
if ((b = __x2d2__(s + 1)) >= 0x80) {
if (b >= 0xE0) { // three byte codepoint
ws += ((b & 0b00001111) << 12) | ((__x2d2__(s + 4) & 0b00111111) << 6) | (__x2d2__(s + 7) & 0b00111111);
s += 9;
}
else { // two byte codepoint
ws += (__x2d2__(s + 4) & 0b00111111) | (b & 0b00000011) << 6;
s += 6;
}
}
else { // one byte codepoints
ws += b;
s += 3;
}
else { // no %
ws += *s;
s++;
}
}
return ws;
}
The Windows API has the functions UrlEscape/UrlUnescape, exported by shlwapi.dll, for this task.
This version is pure C and can optionally normalize the resource path. Using it with C++ is trivial:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
const std::string src("/some.url/foo/../bar/%2e/");
std::cout << "src=\"" << src << "\"" << std::endl;
// either do it the C++ conformant way:
char* dst_buf = new char[src.size() + 1];
urldecode(dst_buf, src.c_str(), 1);
std::string dst1(dst_buf);
delete[] dst_buf;
std::cout << "dst1=\"" << dst1 << "\"" << std::endl;
// or in-place with the &[0] trick to skip the new/delete
std::string dst2;
dst2.resize(src.size() + 1);
dst2.resize(urldecode(&dst2[0], src.c_str(), 1));
std::cout << "dst2=\"" << dst2 << "\"" << std::endl;
}
Outputs:
src="/some.url/foo/../bar/%2e/"
dst1="/some.url/bar/"
dst2="/some.url/bar/"
And the actual function:
#include <stddef.h>
#include <ctype.h>
/**
* decode a percent-encoded C string with optional path normalization
*
* The buffer pointed to by @dst must be at least strlen(@src) bytes.
* Decoding stops at the first character from @src that decodes to null.
* Path normalization will remove redundant slashes and slash+dot sequences,
* as well as removing path components when slash+dot+dot is found. It will
* keep the root slash (if one was present) and will stop normalization
* at the first questionmark found (so query parameters won't be normalized).
*
* @param dst destination buffer
* @param src source buffer
* @param normalize perform path normalization if nonzero
* @return number of valid characters in @dst
* @author Johan Lindh <johan@linkdata.se>
* @legalese BSD licensed (http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
*/
ptrdiff_t urldecode(char* dst, const char* src, int normalize)
{
char* org_dst = dst;
int slash_dot_dot = 0;
char ch, a, b;
do {
ch = *src++;
if (ch == '%' && isxdigit(a = src[0]) && isxdigit(b = src[1])) {
if (a < 'A') a -= '0';
else if(a < 'a') a -= 'A' - 10;
else a -= 'a' - 10;
if (b < 'A') b -= '0';
else if(b < 'a') b -= 'A' - 10;
else b -= 'a' - 10;
ch = 16 * a + b;
src += 2;
}
if (normalize) {
switch (ch) {
case '/':
if (slash_dot_dot < 3) {
/* compress consecutive slashes and remove slash-dot */
dst -= slash_dot_dot;
slash_dot_dot = 1;
break;
}
/* fall-through */
case '?':
/* at start of query, stop normalizing */
if (ch == '?')
normalize = 0;
/* fall-through */
case '\0':
if (slash_dot_dot > 1) {
/* remove trailing slash-dot-(dot) */
dst -= slash_dot_dot;
/* remove parent directory if it was two dots */
if (slash_dot_dot == 3)
while (dst > org_dst && *--dst != '/')
/* empty body */;
slash_dot_dot = (ch == '/') ? 1 : 0;
/* keep the root slash if any */
if (!slash_dot_dot && dst == org_dst && *dst == '/')
++dst;
}
break;
case '.':
if (slash_dot_dot == 1 || slash_dot_dot == 2) {
++slash_dot_dot;
break;
}
/* fall-through */
default:
slash_dot_dot = 0;
}
}
*dst++ = ch;
} while(ch);
return (dst - org_dst) - 1;
}
the juicy bits
#include <ctype.h> // isdigit, tolower
from_hex(char ch) {
return isdigit(ch) ? ch - '0' : tolower(ch) - 'a' + 10;
}
char to_hex(char code) {
static char hex[] = "0123456789abcdef";
return hex[code & 15];
}
noting that
char d = from_hex(hex[0]) << 4 | from_hex(hex[1]);
as in
// %7B = '{'
char d = from_hex('7') << 4 | from_hex('B');
You can use "g_uri_escape_string()" function provided glib.h. https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-URI-Functions.html
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <glib.h>
int main() {
char *uri = "http://www.example.com?hello world";
char *encoded_uri = NULL;
//as per wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding)
char *escape_char_str = "!*'();:@&=+$,/?#[]";
encoded_uri = g_uri_escape_string(uri, escape_char_str, TRUE);
printf("[%s]\n", encoded_uri);
free(encoded_uri);
return 0;
}
compile it with:
gcc encoding_URI.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0`
Another solution is available using Facebook's folly library : folly::uriEscape and folly::uriUnescape.
you can simply use function AtlEscapeUrl() from atlutil.h, just go through its documentation on how to use it.
Had to do it in a project without Boost. So, ended up writing my own. I will just put it on GitHub: https://github.com/corporateshark/LUrlParser
clParseURL URL = clParseURL::ParseURL( "https://name:pwd@github.com:80/path/res" );
if ( URL.IsValid() )
{
cout << "Scheme : " << URL.m_Scheme << endl;
cout << "Host : " << URL.m_Host << endl;
cout << "Port : " << URL.m_Port << endl;
cout << "Path : " << URL.m_Path << endl;
cout << "Query : " << URL.m_Query << endl;
cout << "Fragment : " << URL.m_Fragment << endl;
cout << "User name : " << URL.m_UserName << endl;
cout << "Password : " << URL.m_Password << endl;
}
I know the question asks for a C++ method, but for those who might need it, I came up with a very short function in plain C to encode a string. It doesn't create a new string, rather it alters the existing one, meaning that it must have enough size to hold the new string. Very easy to keep up.
void urlEncode(char *string)
{
char charToEncode;
int posToEncode;
while (((posToEncode=strspn(string,"1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_.~"))!=0) &&(posToEncode<strlen(string)))
{
charToEncode=string[posToEncode];
memmove(string+posToEncode+3,string+posToEncode+1,strlen(string+posToEncode));
string[posToEncode]='%';
string[posToEncode+1]="0123456789ABCDEF"[charToEncode>>4];
string[posToEncode+2]="0123456789ABCDEF"[charToEncode&0xf];
string+=posToEncode+3;
}
}
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/154536/encode-decode-urls-in-c