1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: compressed 5Help: Request compressed response 6Protocols: HTTP 7Category: http 8Added: 7.10 9Multi: boolean 10See-also: 11 - compressed-ssh 12Example: 13 - --compressed $URL 14--- 15 16# `--compressed` 17 18Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and 19automatically decompress the content. 20 21Response headers are not modified when saved, so if they are "interpreted" 22separately again at a later point they might appear to be saying that the 23content is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed. 24 25If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl 26reports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not 27deliver data compressed. 28