curl-library
Re: Decoding text returned from an HTTP Post
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:28:31 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Gross, Tim (Utility Computing Architect) wrote:
> I am posting a document to a webserver which returns some text which happens
> to be XML. It comes encoded to do things like replace double-quotes that
> are embedded in an XML attribute value with """ to preserve the
> validity of the XML. If I do the POST via a web browser, it replaces the
> """ string with a double quote so that it displays nicely.
That's because """ and similar is HTML speak, and a web browser is a HTML
browser so it knows how to display those things.
> Is there any function or option in libcurl to do a similar replacement?
Nope. libcurl only delivers the data for you. You'll need to look elsewhere
for existing tools to translate or display the data.
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