CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING(3) Library Functions Manual NAME CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING - HTTP transfer decoding control SYNOPSIS #include 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 1 PROTOCOLS HTTP 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 7.16.2 Does not work with the hyper backend (it always has transfer decoding enabled). RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. SEE ALSO CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING(3) libcurl April 26 2024 CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING(3)