curl with empty space url

Question

there is a file, its name contain empty space. ex) hello I am good.zip

I am trying to read the file using curl.

so, the url should be like this:

http://domain.com/hello I am good.zip

but, curl can not seems to read that kind of file names. because url is not right format.

So, Is there another way to read the file using curl? Or some options that I didn't know?

server lang is php. and my curl code is below:

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

DhruvPathak · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-21 09:35:05Z

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$url = str_replace(" ","%20",$url); // to properly format the url 

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

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 9:35

DhruvPathak

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machineaddict Over a year ago

I was thinking that is a space related problem, but I was unsure. Only files with spaces in their filenames were not downloaded. Thank you.

talha2k · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-21 09:33:26Z

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Where ever there's a space use %20, that should do the trick, hopefully.

so it will become:

http://domain.com/hello%20I%20am%20good.zip

This will hopefully do the trick.

Hope this helps.

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 9:33

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samayo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-30 17:03:28Z

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try using urlencode('http://domain.com/hello I am good.zip'); or http://domain.com/'.urlencode('hello I am good.zip');

edited Mar 30, 2016 at 17:03

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answered Oct 21, 2011 at 13:37

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