On Wed, 2 May 2007, Woody Gingery wrote:

> I am new to the Curl tool and have a question regarding sending a Gzip'ed
> file via Curl. We have a Perl script that calls Curl to send a file via the
> HTTPS protocol. The -F forms options is used to specify various options
> (userid, password, file name, etc). However, the file is very large and we
> would like to send it zipped. Once we zipped it, the receiver could not open
> the file. What is the proper option and syntax to specify the file has been
> gzip'ed?

There is no such generic way to tell that to the server. A common practise is
to use a .gz extension on the file name.

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