curl_url_set(3) libcurl curl_url_set(3)
NAME
curl_url_set - set a URL part
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLUcode curl_url_set(CURLU *url,
CURLUPart part,
const char *content,
unsigned int flags)
DESCRIPTION
Given the url handle of an already parsed URL, this function lets the
user set/update individual pieces of it.
The part argument should identify the particular URL part (see list
below) to set or change, with content pointing to a null-terminated
string with the new contents for that URL part. The contents should be
in the form and encoding they'd use in a URL: URL encoded.
The application does not have to keep content around after a successful
call.
Setting a part to a NULL pointer will effectively remove that part's
contents from the CURLU handle.
By default, this API only accepts URLs using schemes for protocols that
are supported built-in. To make libcurl parse URLs generically even for
schemes it does not know about, the CURLU_NON_SUPPORT_SCHEME flags bit
must be set. Otherwise, this function returns CURLUE_UNSUPPORTED_SCHEME
on URL schemes it does not recognize.
This function call has no particular maximum length for any provided
input string. In the real world, excessively long field in URLs will
cause problems even if this API accepts them.
When setting or updating contents of individual URL parts, this API
might accept data that would not be otherwise possible to set in the
string when it gets populated as a result of a full URL parse. Beware.
If done so, extracting a full URL later on from such components might
render an invalid URL.
The flags argument is a bitmask with independent features.
PARTS
CURLUPART_URL
Allows the full URL of the handle to be replaced. If the handle
already is populated with a URL, the new URL can be relative to
the previous.
When successfully setting a new URL, relative or absolute, the
handle contents will be replaced with the information of the
newly set URL.
Pass a pointer to a null-terminated string to the url parameter.
The string must point to a correctly formatted "RFC 3986+" URL
or be a NULL pointer.
Unless CURLU_NO_AUTHORITY is set, a blank host name is not
allowed in the URL.
CURLUPART_SCHEME
Scheme cannot be URL decoded on set. libcurl only accepts
setting schemes up to 40 bytes long.
CURLUPART_USER
CURLUPART_PASSWORD
CURLUPART_OPTIONS
The options field is an optional field that might follow the
password in the userinfo part. It is only recognized/used when
parsing URLs for the following schemes: pop3, smtp and imap.
This function however allows users to independently set this
field at will.
CURLUPART_HOST
The host name. If it is IDNA the string must then be encoded as
your locale says or UTF-8 (when WinIDN is used). If it is a
bracketed IPv6 numeric address it may contain a zone id (or you
can use CURLUPART_ZONEID).
Unless CURLU_NO_AUTHORITY is set, a blank host name is not
allowed to set.
CURLUPART_ZONEID
If the host name is a numeric IPv6 address, this field can also
be set.
CURLUPART_PORT
Port cannot be URL encoded on set. The given port number is
provided as a string and the decimal number must be between 1
and 65535. Anything else will return an error.
CURLUPART_PATH
If a path is set in the URL without a leading slash, a slash
will be prepended automatically.
CURLUPART_QUERY
The query part will also get spaces converted to pluses when
asked to URL encode on set with the CURLU_URLENCODE bit.
If used together with the CURLU_APPENDQUERY bit, the provided
part is appended on the end of the existing query.
The question mark in the URL is not part of the actual query
contents.
CURLUPART_FRAGMENT
The hash sign in the URL is not part of the actual fragment
contents.
FLAGS
The flags argument is zero, one or more bits set in a bitmask.
CURLU_APPENDQUERY
Can be used when setting the CURLUPART_QUERY component. The
provided new part will then instead be appended at the end of
the existing query - and if the previous part did not end with
an ampersand (&), an ampersand gets inserted before the new
appended part.
When CURLU_APPENDQUERY is used together with CURLU_URLENCODE,
the first '=' symbol will not be URL encoded.
CURLU_NON_SUPPORT_SCHEME
If set, allows curl_url_set(3) to set a non-supported scheme.
CURLU_URLENCODE
When set, curl_url_set(3) URL encodes the part on entry, except
for scheme, port and URL.
When setting the path component with URL encoding enabled, the
slash character will be skipped.
The query part gets space-to-plus conversion before the URL
conversion.
This URL encoding is charset unaware and will convert the input
on a byte-by-byte manner.
CURLU_DEFAULT_SCHEME
If set, will make libcurl allow the URL to be set without a
scheme and then sets that to the default scheme: HTTPS.
Overrides the CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME option if both are set.
CURLU_GUESS_SCHEME
If set, will make libcurl allow the URL to be set without a
scheme and it instead "guesses" which scheme that was intended
based on the host name. If the outermost sub-domain name matches
DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that scheme will be
used, otherwise it picks HTTP. Conflicts with the
CURLU_DEFAULT_SCHEME option which takes precedence if both are
set.
CURLU_NO_AUTHORITY
If set, skips authority checks. The RFC allows individual
schemes to omit the host part (normally the only mandatory part
of the authority), but libcurl cannot know whether this is
permitted for custom schemes. Specifying the flag permits empty
authority sections, similar to how file scheme is handled.
CURLU_PATH_AS_IS
When set for CURLUPART_URL, this makes libcurl skip the
normalization of the path. That is the procedure where curl
otherwise removes sequences of dot-slash and dot-dot etc. The
same option used for transfers is called CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS(3).
CURLU_ALLOW_SPACE
If set, the URL parser allows space (ASCII 32) where possible.
The URL syntax does normally not allow spaces anywhere, but they
should be encoded as %20 or '+'. When spaces are allowed, they
are still not allowed in the scheme. When space is used and
allowed in a URL, it will be stored as-is unless CURLU_URLENCODE
is also set, which then makes libcurl URL-encode the space
before stored. This affects how the URL will be constructed when
curl_url_get(3) is subsequently used to extract the full URL or
individual parts. (Added in 7.78.0)
CURLU_DISALLOW_USER
If set, the URL parser will not accept embedded credentials for
the CURLUPART_URL, and will instead return
CURLUE_USER_NOT_ALLOWED for such URLs.
EXAMPLE
CURLUcode rc;
CURLU *url = curl_url();
rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_URL, "https://example.com", 0);
if(!rc) {
char *scheme;
/* change it to an FTP URL */
rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_SCHEME, "ftp", 0);
}
curl_url_cleanup(url);
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.62.0. CURLUPART_ZONEID was added in 7.65.0.
RETURN VALUE
Returns a CURLUcode error value, which is CURLUE_OK (0) if everything
went fine. See the libcurl-errors(3) man page for the full list with
descriptions.
The input string passed to curl_url_set(3) must be shorter than eight
million bytes. Otherwise this function returns CURLUE_MALFORMED_INPUT.
If this function returns an error, no URL part is set.
SEE ALSO
curl_url_cleanup(3), curl_url(3), curl_url_get(3), curl_url_dup(3),
curl_url_strerror(3), CURLOPT_CURLU(3)
libcurl 8.2.1 June 8, 2023 curl_url_set(3)
curl 8.2.1 - Generated Wed Aug 16 18:27:55 CDT 2023