Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible

Daniel (24 August 2005)

- Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible

  from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it

  easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are

  still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option

  is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the

  connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a

  simple test that this works.

- (Trying hard to exclude emotions now.) valgrind version 3 suddenly renamed

  the --logfile command line option to --log-file, and thus the test script

  valgrind autodetection now has yet another version check to do and then it

 Public curl release number:               89

 Releases counted from the very beginning: 116

 Available command line options:           107

 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     122

 Available command line options:           108

 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     123

 Number of public functions in libcurl:    46

 Amount of public web site mirrors:        25

 Number of known libcurl bindings:         31

This release includes the following changes:

 o --ignore-content-length and CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH added

 o negotiates data connection SSL earlier when doing FTPS with PASV

 o CURLOPT_COOKIELIST and CURLINFO_COOKIELIST

 o trailer support for chunked encoded data streams 

 Tupone Alfredo, Gisle Vanem, David Shaw, Andrew Bushnell, Dan Fandrich,

 Adrian Schuur, Diego Casorran, Peteris Krumins, Jon Grubbs, Christopher

 R. Palmer, Mario Schroeder, Richard Clayton, James Bursa, Jeff Pohlmeyer,

 Norbert Novotny

 Norbert Novotny, Toby Peterson

        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

See also the \fI-A/--user-agent\fP and \fI-e/--referer\fP options.

This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.

.IP "--ignore-content-length"

(HTTP)

Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for servers

running Apache 1.x, which will report incorrect Content-Length for files

larger than 2 gigabytes.

.IP "-i/--include"

(HTTP)

Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header includes things

Enforce HTTP 1.0 requests.

.IP CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1

Enforce HTTP 1.1 requests.

.IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH

Ignore the Content-Length header. This is useful for Apache 1.x which will

report incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If this option

is used, curl will not be able to accurately report progress, and will

simply stop the download when the server ends the connection.

.RE

.SH FTP OPTIONS

.IP CURLOPT_FTPPORT

  /* feed cookies into cookie engine */

  CINIT(COOKIELIST, OBJECTPOINT, 135),

  /* ignore Content-Length */

  CINIT(IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH, LONG, 136),

  CURLOPT_LASTENTRY /* the last unused */

} CURLoption;