Question

Got a php script using cURL grabbing the contents of a url that has colons in the source name:

$url = 'http://www.awebsite.com/anxml:file:thatoddly:hascolons:allovertheplace:';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
$data = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)) {
   echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

I am getting the error.

Could not resolve host: http; nodename nor servname provided, or not known <url here>

I’ve double checked that the url is working fine otherwise, but I suspect cURL is choking on the colons in the filename. The source isn’t mine, so I can’t remove the colons.

Is there another way around this?

Answer 1

Looking at the man page, cURL has a –data-urlencode flag.

If it’s just one URL not being done via CLI but PHP, you could use PHP’s urlencode().