diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0bc479f..58ca7ac 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ ipstack = { version = "0.1" }
 log = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 percent-encoding = "2"
+shlex = "1.3.0"
 socks5-impl = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = [
     "tokio",
 ] }
diff --git a/src/general_api.rs b/src/general_api.rs
index d4bc0ce..665026e 100644
--- a/src/general_api.rs
+++ b/src/general_api.rs
@@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn tun2proxy_run_with_cli_args(cli_args: *const c_char, tu
     let Ok(cli_args) = std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(cli_args).to_str() else {
         return -5;
     };
-    let args = <Args as ::clap::Parser>::parse_from(cli_args.split_whitespace());
+    let Some(args) = shlex::split(cli_args) else {
+        log::error!("Failed to split CLI arguments");
+        return -6;
+    };
+    let args = <Args as ::clap::Parser>::parse_from(args);
     general_run_for_api(args, tun_mtu, packet_information)
 }