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Re: libcurls behaviour without zlib?

From: Michael Wallner <mike_at_iworks.at>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:54:34 +0200

Hi Daniel Stenberg, you wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Michael Wallner wrote:
>
>> I just thought I could ask this prior building a libcurl version
>> without zlib support to test with. Does libcurl ignore the
>> CURLOPT_ENCODING option or does it deny to send the request if zlib
>> support is not built in?
>
>
> Setting this option populates the request accordingly and only if you
> have zlib it will unpack anything while downloading.

So, if libcurl is not built against zlib it still sends the request
and downloads the data? That's great, and what I was hoping for :)

> But, if you set the option to "" libcurl will fill in all supported
> types in the request and when built without zlib it doesn't include any
> compressed types at all!

Uhm, could I overcome that by setting "gzip, deflate, compress"?

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Michael - <mike(@)php.net> http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz
Received on 2005-10-10