Date: 2011jun25 Language: C/C++ Q. C/C++: encode a file name to be a URL A. Here are two routines that can do that:

// Helper function inline char * Shuffle(char * dest, const char * src) { return (char *) memmove(dest, src, strlen(src) + sizeof(char)); } void EncodeForUrl(char * s) { char szHex[] = "%??"; // We depend on the percent symbol at szHex[0] const int lenHex = strlen(szHex); if (s == NULL) return; for (char * p = s; *p;) { if (isalnum(*p))) { p++; } else { Shuffle(p+lenHex, p+1); sprintf(szHex+1, "%02X", *p); memcpy(p, szHex, lenHex); p += lenHex; } } } // Turn %3A into colon, and %5C into backslash, etc void DecodeFromUrl(char * s) { char szHex[] = "??"; // We depend on the NUL character at szHex[2] char * dummy; if (s == NULL) return; for (char * p = s; *p; p++) { if (*p == '%') { szHex[0] = p[1]; szHex[1] = p[2]; *p = (char) strtol(szHex, &dummy, 16); Shuffle(p+1, p+3); } } } void ExampleUse() { // Make a URL with a filename char filename[MAX_PATH] = "c:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf"; char url[MAX_PATH*3]; EncodeForUrl(filename); _snprintf(url, sizeof(url), "dosomething.cgi?filename=%s", filename); }