From a4773fcbbbf42a25c1037573fbab58aa275b9ed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:57:28 +0000 Subject: 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. --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/libcurl') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3