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| author | Isaac Boukris <iboukris@gmail.com> | 2016-04-23 15:52:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-05-01 23:27:01 +0200 |
| commit | 7987f5cb14dc2fae5921ac3a2989a7d0e51474d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 91edaa028fbf2efe2f3e24f02fa41505309f0f2a /docs/libcurl/opts | |
| parent | 9291e2b9d0a5975d7d6b0fe2a0a45119724c75c3 (diff) | |
CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3: Follow-up clarification
Mention possible content-length mismatch with sum of bytes reported
by write callbacks when auto decoding is enabled.
See #785
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3 index 3d172dcbe..c31263139 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3 @@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ Servers might respond with Content-Encoding even without getting a Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request. -The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to be -for the compressed content but sending the size for the non-compressed version -of the resource is a very common mistake. +The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to +indicate the length of the compressed content so when auto decoding is enabled +it may not match the sum of bytes reported by the write callbacks (although, +sending the length of the non-compressed content is a common server mistake). .SH DEFAULT NULL .SH PROTOCOLS |