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

       This functionality affects http only

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 curl 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                                            2024-12-11                       CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3)