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;
}