On 08/22/2018 04:43 PM, Rainer Canavan via curl-library wrote:
> Apologies for dredging up an issue that has been apparently been in
> published curl versions since at least about a year, but we've only
> just encountered it while upgrading a system from Ubuntu 17.10 to
> 18.04. The relevant commit is
> https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/dbcced8e32b50c068ac297106f0502ee200a1ebd#diff-ff9fb98500e598660ec2dcd2d8193aac
> if I'm not mistaken.
This would have helped us much to have the curl version rather than the
Ubuntu's. After grepping Ubuntu's repository, it appears that curl's
version is 7.58.0.
>
> In curl versions up to at least 7.56.0, setting
> CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING to values other than NULL resulted in curl
> decoding "gzip" and "deflate" and quietly passing any other Encoding,
> such as "None", which is mistakenly used by one of our customers.
"None" is recognized from 7.59.0, containing the commit
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f886cbfe9c3055999d8174b2eedc826d0d9a54f1
that implements it. Maybe Ubuntu should upgrade ;-)

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Received on 2018-08-22