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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 9debc8895..7cfe29b98 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ work. (Added in 7.10.7) Pass a parameter set to 1 to enable this. When enabled, libcurl will automatically set the Referer: field in requests where it follows a Location: redirect. -.IP CURLOPT_ENCODING +.IP CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING Sets the contents of the Accept-Encoding: header sent in an HTTP request, and enables decoding of a response when a Content-Encoding: header is received. Three encodings are supported: \fIidentity\fP, which does nothing, @@ -928,6 +928,21 @@ supported encodings is sent. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not do it. This option must be set (to any non-NULL value) or else any unsolicited encoding done by the server is ignored. See the special file lib/README.encoding for details. + +(This option was called CURLOPT_ENCODING before 7.21.6) +.IP CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING +Adds a request for compressed Transfer Encoding in the outgoing HTTP +request. If the server supports this and so desires, it can respond with the +HTTP resonse sent using a compressed Transfer-Encoding that will be +automatically uncompressed by libcurl on receival. + +Transfer-Encoding differs slightly from the Content-Encoding you ask for with +\fBCURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING\fP in that a Transfer-Encoding is strictly meant to +be for the transfer and thus MUST be decoded before the data arrives in the +client. Traditionally, Transfer-Encoding has been much less used and supported +by both HTTP clients and HTTP servers. + +(Added in 7.21.6) .IP CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION A parameter set to 1 tells the library to follow any Location: header that the server sends as part of an HTTP header. |