Commit 7987f5cb authored by Isaac Boukris's avatar Isaac Boukris Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3: Follow-up clarification 

Mention possible content-length mismatch with sum of bytes reported
by write callbacks when auto decoding is enabled.

See #785
parent 9291e2b9

docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3

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@@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ Servers might respond with Content-Encoding even without getting a 
Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different

Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different

Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request.

Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request.





The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to be

The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to

for the compressed content but sending the size for the non-compressed version

indicate the length of the compressed content so when auto decoding is enabled

of the resource is a very common mistake.

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).

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