CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3)                            curl_easy_setopt options

NAME
       CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING - enables automatic decompression of HTTP
       downloads

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, char
       *enc);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a char * argument specifying what encoding you'd like.

       Sets the contents of the Accept-Encoding: header sent in an HTTP
       request, and enables decoding of a response when a Content-Encoding:
       header is received.

       libcurl potentially supports several different compressed encodings
       depending on what support that has been built-in.

       To aid applications not having to bother about what specific algorithms
       this particular libcurl build supports, libcurl allows a zero-length
       string to be set ("") to ask for an Accept-Encoding: header to be used
       that contains all built-in supported encodings.

       Alternatively, you can specify exactly the encoding or list of
       encodings you want in the response. Four encodings are supported:
       identity, meaning non-compressed, deflate which requests the server to
       compress its response using the zlib algorithm, gzip which requests the
       gzip algorithm, (since curl 7.57.0) br which is brotli and (since curl
       7.72.0) zstd which is zstd.  Provide them in the string as a comma-
       separated list of accepted encodings, like:

         "br, gzip, deflate".

       Set _ACCEPT_ENCODING&section=3">CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) to NULL to explicitly disable it, which
       makes libcurl not send an Accept-Encoding: header and not decompress
       received contents automatically.

       You can also opt to just include the Accept-Encoding: header in your
       request with _HTTPHEADER&section=3">CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3) but then there will be no automatic
       decompressing when receiving data.

       This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not do it.  This
       option must be set (to any non-NULL value) or else any unsolicited
       encoding done by the server is ignored.

       Servers might respond with Content-Encoding even without getting a
       Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different
       Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request.

       The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed
       to indicate the length of the compressed content so when auto decoding
       is enabled it may not match the sum of bytes reported by the write
       callbacks (although, sending the length of the non-compressed content
       is a common server mistake).

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting
       this option.

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

         /* enable all supported built-in compressions */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "");

         /* Perform the request */
         curl_easy_perform(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       This option was called CURLOPT_ENCODING before 7.21.6

       The specific libcurl you're using must have been built with zlib to be
       able to decompress gzip and deflate responses, with the brotli library
       to decompress brotli responses and with the zstd library to decompress
       zstd responses.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if
       not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3),
       CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING(3),

libcurl 7.77.0                 November 4, 2020     CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3)