curl/docs/cmdline-opts/ignore-content-length.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: ignore-content-length Help: Ignore the size of the remote resource Protocols: FTP HTTP Category: http ftp Added: 7.14.1 Multi: boolean See-also:

• ftp-skip-pasv-ip Example:
• --ignore-content-length $URL ---

--ignore-content-length

For HTTP, Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for servers running Apache 1.x, which reports incorrect Content-Length for files larger than 2 gigabytes.

For FTP, this makes curl skip the SIZE command to figure out the size before downloading a file (added in 7.46.0).

This option does not work for HTTP if libcurl was built to use hyper.