1 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 2 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 3 Long: compressed 4 Help: Request compressed response 5 Protocols: HTTP 6 Category: http 7 Example: --compressed $URL 8 See-also: compressed-ssh 9 Added: 7.10 10 Multi: boolean 11 --- 12 Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and 13 automatically decompress the content. 14 15 Response headers are not modified when saved, so if they are "interpreted" 16 separately again at a later point they might appear to be saying that the 17 content is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed. 18 19 If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl 20 reports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not 21 deliver data compressed. 22