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Asked: 2026-06-06T21:05:59+00:00

I have a string that contains an escaped URL: http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar+baz I’m trying to decode

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I have a string that contains an escaped URL:

http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar+baz

I’m trying to decode it to the following:

http://example.com?foo=bar+baz

However, I can’t find any suitable function exported by Drakma. I can encode like so:

* url-string

"http://example.com?foo=bar+baz"
* (drakma:url-encode url-string :utf-8)

"http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar%2Bbaz"

… so I figure I’m on the right track. If anyone could supply a nudge in the right direction I’d appreciate it 🙂 I’m using SBCL 1.0.54, built from source on 64-bit Linux Mint 13.

If it helps clarify what I’m trying to do, in Ruby, I’d do the following:

> uri_string = "http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar+baz"
 => "http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar+baz" 
> URI.decode uri_string
 => "http://example.com?foo=bar+baz"
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  1. Editorial Team

    A quick SLIME session.

    CL-USER> (ql-dist:system-apropos "url")

#<SYSTEM curly / curly-20120407-git / quicklisp 2012-05-20>
#<SYSTEM curly.test / curly-20120407-git / quicklisp 2012-05-20>
#<SYSTEM do-urlencode / do-urlencode-20120407-git / quicklisp 2012-05-20>
#<SYSTEM url-rewrite / url-rewrite-0.1.1 / quicklisp 2012-05-20>

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :do-urlencode)

    C-cC-dpdo-urlencodeRET

    DO-URLENCODE:URLDECODE
  Function: (not documented)
DO-URLENCODE:URLENCODE
  Function: (not documented)
DO-URLENCODE:URLENCODE-MALFORMED-STRING
  Type: (not documented)
DO-URLENCODE:URLENCODE-MALFORMED-STRING-STRING
  Generic Function: (not documented)

CL-USER> (do-urlencode:urldecode "http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar%2Bbaz")

"http://example.com?foo=bar+baz"
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