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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2023-05-09 08:28:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2023-05-09 09:20:12 +0200 |
| commit | 6708498588729d7e446878297f9ff6f341970a38 (patch) | |
| tree | 3289cb1a5285082b1be84579c7c8efa0383ab7dd | |
| parent | 8e21b1a05f3c0ee098dbcb6c3d84cb61f102a122 (diff) | |
| download | curl-6708498588729d7e446878297f9ff6f341970a38.tar.gz | |
compressed.d: clarify the words on "not notifying headers"
Reported-by: Dylan Anthony
Fixes #11091
Closes #11092
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d index 97ab1b10b..7dadf1401 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d @@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ Added: 7.10 Multi: boolean --- Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and -automatically decompress the content. Headers are not modified. +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 will report an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not |