curl/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: compressed Help: Request compressed response Protocols: HTTP Category: http Added: 7.10 Multi: boolean See-also:

• compressed-ssh Example:
• --compressed $URL ---

--compressed

Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and automatically decompress the content.

Response headers are not modified when saved, so if they are "interpreted" separately again at a later point they might appear to be saying that the content is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed.

If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl reports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not deliver data compressed.