1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7Protocol:
8  - HTTP
9  - FTP
10See-also:
11  - CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION (3)
12  - CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE_LARGE (3)
13Added-in: 7.14.1
14---
15
16# NAME
17
18CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH - ignore content length
19
20# SYNOPSIS
21
22~~~c
23#include <curl/curl.h>
24
25CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH,
26                          long ignore);
27~~~
28
29# DESCRIPTION
30
31If *ignore* is set to 1L, ignore the Content-Length header in the HTTP
32response and ignore asking for or relying on it for FTP transfers.
33
34This is useful for doing HTTP transfers with ancient web servers which report
35incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If this option is used,
36curl cannot accurately report progress, and it instead stops the download when
37the server ends the connection.
38
39It is also useful with FTP when for example the file is growing while the
40transfer is in progress which otherwise unconditionally causes libcurl to
41report error.
42
43Only use this option if strictly necessary.
44
45# DEFAULT
46
470
48
49# %PROTOCOLS%
50
51# EXAMPLE
52
53~~~c
54int main(void)
55{
56  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
57  if(curl) {
58    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
59
60    /* we know the server is silly, ignore content-length */
61    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH, 1L);
62
63    curl_easy_perform(curl);
64  }
65}
66~~~
67
68# HISTORY
69
70Support for FTP added in 7.46.0.
71
72# %AVAILABILITY%
73
74# RETURN VALUE
75
76Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
77