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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: compressed
Help: Request compressed response
Protocols: HTTP
Category: http
Added: 7.1
Multi: boolean
See-also:
- compressed-ssh
Example:
- '--compressed $URL'
--compressed
Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and automatically decompress the content.
Response headers are not modified when saved, so if they are "interpreted" separately again at a later point they might appear to be saying that the content is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed.
If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl reports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not deliver data compressed.