.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .TH curl_unescape 3 "November 04, 2020" "libcurl 7.74.0" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_unescape - URL decodes the given string .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .sp .BI "char *curl_unescape( const char *" url ", int "length " );" .ad .SH DESCRIPTION Obsolete function. Use \fIcurl_easy_unescape(3)\fP instead! This function will convert the given URL encoded input string to a "plain string" and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number) will be converted to their plain text versions. If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_unescape() will use strlen() on the input 'url' string to find out the size. You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it. .SH AVAILABILITY Since 7.15.4, \fIcurl_easy_unescape(3)\fP should be used. This function will be removed in a future release. .SH RETURN VALUE A pointer to a null-terminated string or NULL if it failed. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR curl_easy_escape "(3), " curl_easy_unescape "(3), " curl_free "(3), " RFC 2396