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1*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
2*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerc: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al.
3*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong: compressed
5*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHelp: Request compressed response
6*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerProtocols: HTTP
7*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerCategory: http
8*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerAdded: 7.10
9*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMulti: boolean
10*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSee-also:
11*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - compressed-ssh
12*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerExample:
13*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - --compressed $URL
14*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
15*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
16*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# `--compressed`
17*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
18*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerRequest a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and
19*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerautomatically decompress the content.
20*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
21*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerResponse headers are not modified when saved, so if they are "interpreted"
22*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerseparately again at a later point they might appear to be saying that the
23*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workercontent is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed.
24*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
25*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerIf this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl
26*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerreports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not
27*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdeliver data compressed.
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