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

1

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(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING(3)