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CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING explained

Name

CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING - HTTP transfer decoding control

Synopsis

 #include <curl/curl.h>   CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING,   long enabled);

Description

Pass a long to tell libcurl how to act on transfer decoding. If set to zero, transfer decoding is disabled, if set to 1 it is enabled (default). libcurl does chunked transfer decoding by default unless this option is set to zero.

Default

Protocols

This functionality affects http only

Example

 int main(void) {   CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();   if(curl) {   CURLcode ret;   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING, 0L);   ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);   } }

Availability

Added in curl 7.16.2

Return value

curl_easy_setopt returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors.