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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-05-12 12:45:14 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-05-12 12:45:14 +0000
commitc0197f19cfcec0dd1ade0648d123b9399a6a1959 (patch)
tree3ecaac4877588f350d755323cc53bab5e093869c /lib/README.encoding
parent3994d67eea975507e1ba0f180680d9e237ddacf0 (diff)
Dan Fandrich changed CURLOPT_ENCODING to select all supported encodings if
set to "". This frees the application from having to know which encodings the library supports.
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diff --git a/lib/README.encoding b/lib/README.encoding
index 5f878038e..d81cf50fe 100644
--- a/lib/README.encoding
+++ b/lib/README.encoding
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ Currently, libcurl only understands how to process responses that use the
that will work (besides "identity," which does nothing) are "deflate" and
"gzip" If a response is encoded using the "compress" or methods, libcurl will
return an error indicating that the response could not be decoded. If
-<string> is NULL or empty no Accept-Encoding header is generated.
+<string> is NULL no Accept-Encoding header is generated. If <string> is a
+zero-length string, then an Accept-Encoding header containing all supported
+encodings will be generated.
The CURLOPT_ENCODING must be set to any non-NULL value for content to be
automatically decoded. If it is not set and the server still sends encoded