Re: Force content decoding

[Timothe Litt via curl-library]

On 07-Jul-22 03:56, Wolf Vollprecht via curl-library wrote:

Hi all,

I have some data that I am downloading where I know that it is gzip-encoded. 
However, the server does not respond with the correct header (and I don’t have 
control over it). I was wondering if there is a way to either “manually” append 
the proper Content-Encoding header to the response or force libcurl to encode 
the response with gzip?

Best,

Wolf

For the command line:

    curl https://foo.example.com/bar | gunzip > data




Timothe Litt
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I assume you mean "decode", not "encode".  After the mandatory lecture about not tolerating broken servers... If you are using libcurl, depending on your requirements see zlib (libz) with CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or popen() gunzip (or gzip -d).

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