curl -G --data x / returns curl: (27) Out of memory

[Hello71]

Steps to reproduce

curl -G --data x /

Expected results

No output, or curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL.

Actual results

curl: (27) Out of memory

Additional information

The actual command is closer to curl -Gso /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' --data-urlencode 'foo=bar?' /path, which in previous curl versions returned /path?foo=bar%3F but now returns curl: (27) Out of memory. This usage is arguably dubious to begin with, but if it is not supported, I think the error message shouldn't be "Out of memory".

curl/libcurl version

curl 7.86.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.86.0 OpenSSL/3.0.7 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.2 libidn2/2.3.4 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.4) libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.50.0
Release-Date: 2022-10-26
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

operating system

Arch Linux

[Hello71]

Hm... as I understand, in new curl versions, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/296536/how-to-urlencode-data-for-curl-command/10797966 won't work anymore. Is there a better way to URL-encode some query string parameters and also send request body?

[bagder]

Hm... as I understand, in new curl versions won't work anymore.

I don't understand what you say won't work anymore. We don't break behavior. Also, not really related to this bug.

[Hello71]

sorry, I meant to link to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/296536/how-to-urlencode-data-for-curl-command/10797966#10797966. example:

date | curl -Gso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-urlencode @- "" | cut -c 3-

[bagder]

My points remain the same. Why wouldn't that work?

[Hello71]

before b82eb72, date | src/curl -Gso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-urlencode @- "" | cut -c 3- returns the current date with url encoding. after, it returns nothing.

[bagder]

"" is not a valid URL. If you remove the -s you'll see the error message.