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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-04-14 22:59:34 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-04-18 19:46:21 +0200
commit5aae3c13e2ce95c1e06e8512948f5caac118aa1c (patch)
tree39e7cd83caa099dbae84fa6208c6c8b4aa90142a /docs/curl.1
parent8e4fb01e64bee1893452f25873758cb856898d84 (diff)
transfer-encoding: document the options
The new libcurl and command line options are now described.
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH curl 1 "28 November 2009" "Curl 7.21.4" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "14 April 2009" "Curl 7.21.6" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ NSS ciphers is in the NSSCipherSuite entry at this URL:
If this option is used several times, the last one will override the others.
.IP "--compressed"
(HTTP) Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms libcurl
-supports, and return the uncompressed document. If this option is used and
-the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.
+supports, and save the uncompressed document. If this option is used and the
+server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.
.IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>"
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take.
This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is
@@ -1345,6 +1345,11 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--trace-time"
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
(Added in 7.14.0)
+.IP "--tr-encoding"
+(HTTP) Request a compressed Transfer-Encoding response using one of the
+algorithms libcurl supports, and uncompress the data while receiving it.
+
+(Added in 7.21.6)
.IP "-u/--user <user:password>"
Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
\fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.