CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3)NAMECURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING - enables automatic decompression of HTTP down‐
loads
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, char
*enc);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a char * argument specifying what encoding you'd like.
Sets the contents of the Accept-Encoding: header sent in a HTTP
request, and enables decoding of a response when a Content-Encoding:
header is received. Three encodings are supported: identity, which
does nothing, deflate which requests the server to compress its
response using the zlib algorithm, and gzip which requests the gzip
algorithm.
If a zero-length string is set like "", then an Accept-Encoding: header
containing all built-in supported encodings is sent.
You can also opt to just include the Accept-Encoding: header in your
request with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3) but then there will be no automatic
decompressing when receiving data.
This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not do it. This
option must be set (to any non-NULL value) or else any unsolicited
encoding done by the server is ignored. See the special file
lib/README.encoding for further details.
DEFAULT
NULL
PROTOCOLS
HTTP
EXAMPLE
TODO
AVAILABILITY
This option was called CURLOPT_ENCODING before 7.21.6
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if
not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
SEE ALSOCURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3), CURLOPT_HTTP_CON‐
TENT_DECODING(3),
libcurl 7.37.0 17 Jun 2014 CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3)
