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Re: Feature request: Add 'content' field in -w %{json} output

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:45:15 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, rs _ wrote:

> The current output is usually enormous and not parsable

Most users don't want nor need the body as json. Not even among those that
extract meta-data using json. If you download a terrabyte file and want some
metadata extracted from that transfer in json, I don't think it's fair to
force those users to throw all that data - by default - through their json
parser if all they want is %{content_type}.

> For what it's worth, this small script mimics the intended behavior:

Try that with a terrabyte download! =)

> I still think it would be extremely useful to have this output as an option
> in curl (maybe as an additional <format>: %{json+full}), but maybe there is
> not enough support for this feature.

I haven't objected to it, but I probably won't work on it myself in 2022.

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Received on 2022-02-23