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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
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Long: tr-encoding
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Added: 7.21.6
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Help: Request compressed transfer encoding
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Protocols: HTTP
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Category: http
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Multi: boolean
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See-also:
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- compressed
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Example:
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- --tr-encoding $URL
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# `--tr-encoding`
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Request a compressed Transfer-Encoding response using one of the algorithms
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curl supports, and uncompress the data while receiving it.
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This method was once intended to be the way to do automatic data compression
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for HTTP but for all practical purposes using Content-Encoding as done with
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--compressed has superseded transfer encoding. The --tr-encoding option is
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therefore often not be one you want.
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