CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3)                          Library Functions Manual

NAME
       CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING - ask for HTTP Transfer Encoding

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING,
                                 long enable);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a long set to 1L to enable or 0 to disable.

       Adds a request for compressed Transfer Encoding in the outgoing HTTP
       request. If the server supports this and so desires, it can respond
       with the HTTP response sent using a compressed Transfer-Encoding that
       is automatically uncompressed by libcurl on reception.

       Transfer-Encoding differs slightly from the Content-Encoding you ask
       for with CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) in that a Transfer-Encoding is
       strictly meant to be for the transfer and thus MUST be decoded before
       the data arrives in the client. Traditionally, Transfer-Encoding has
       been much less used and supported by both HTTP clients and HTTP
       servers.

DEFAULT
       0

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP

EXAMPLE
       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING, 1L);
           curl_easy_perform(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.21.6

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if not.

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING(3)

libcurl                          April 26 2024    CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3)