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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 5 |
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 4625cd664..a8b6380b3 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -429,6 +429,11 @@ for you. See also the \fI-A/--user-agent\fP and \fI-e/--referer\fP options. This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers. +.IP "--ignore-content-length" +(HTTP) +Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for servers +running Apache 1.x, which will report incorrect Content-Length for files +larger than 2 gigabytes. .IP "-i/--include" (HTTP) Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header includes things diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 0b2649e1e..07f6f09e5 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ 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 |