Quoting and escaping

We seem to be quoting and escaping things all over the place.

->rfc1738.c has two URI escaping options
->html.c does html quoting.
->accesslog.c had 1 semi-URI escaping option for MIME headers , and I have
just added a second escaping routine for usernames.

Is there any benefit in my doing a generic escaping routine

typedef enum {
   DO_URI,
   UNDO_URI,
   DO_HTML,
   UNDO_HTML
} escape_type_t;

char * generic_escape(const char * string, escape_type_t escape_type, char
escapechars[]);

and then in globals have the common charsets?
so you can call

escapedstr=generic_escape(original,DO_URI,RFC1738_UNSAFE);

Rob
Received on Thu Nov 09 2000 - 03:02:11 MST