On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Michael Wallner wrote:

>> 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 :)

Correct.

>> 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"?

Yes you can!

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