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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-08-24 10:57:28 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2005-08-24 10:57:28 +0000
commita4773fcbbbf42a25c1037573fbab58aa275b9ed1 (patch)
tree965b924386052986179eb3717aeab0d82744bd54 /docs/libcurl
parent1e038c4bc6ecc43bdbbe0e66a70001c7fe967bf6 (diff)
Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible
from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a simple test that this works.
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
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+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -687,6 +687,11 @@ it thinks fit.
Enforce HTTP 1.0 requests.
.IP CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1
Enforce HTTP 1.1 requests.
+.IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH
+Ignore the Content-Length header. This is useful for Apache 1.x which will
+report incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If this option
+is used, curl will not be able to accurately report progress, and will
+simply stop the download when the server ends the connection.
.RE
.SH FTP OPTIONS
.IP CURLOPT_FTPPORT