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48<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
49<p class="level0">curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
50<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">#include &lt;curl/curl.h&gt;</span> 
51<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">char *curl_easy_escape( CURL * curl , char * url , int length  );</span> 
52<p class="level0"><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
53<p class="level0">This function converts the given input string to an URL encoded string and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal number). 
54<p class="level0">If the <span Class="bold">length</span> argument is set to 0 (zero), <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_easy_escape.html">curl_easy_escape</a> uses strlen() on the input <span Class="bold">url</span> to find out the size. 
55<p class="level0">You must <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_free.html">curl_free</a> the returned string when you're done with it. <a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
56<p class="level0">Added in 7.15.4 and replaces the old <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_escape.html">curl_escape</a> function. <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
57<p class="level0">A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
58<p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="/curl_easy_unescape.html">curl_easy_unescape</a> <a Class="manpage" href="/curl_free.html">curl_free</a> <span Class="manpage">  <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a></span> <p class="roffit">
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