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| -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 |