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Re: Proposal: URL API extension, second setter function to allow setting from CURLU object

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:17:51 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, Timothe Litt via curl-library wrote:

> If you need more than libcurl's features for manipulating URIs, there are
> other C libraries that are widely available, e.g.
> https://uriparser.github.io/ (https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser)

However, if you are using libcurl I *strongly* suggest you use libcurl's
parser, as it has been shown many times that mixing parsers is a common recipe
for (security) problems. I blogged about that last year, but I am not the
first and not the last:

  https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/10/dont-mix-url-parsers/

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Received on 2023-10-23