Tribblix: manual page: CURLOPT_TRANSFER

CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3) Introduction to Library Functions

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

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

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).