GNURLOPT_H...T_DECODING(3)

🎀 GNURLOPT_H...T_DECODING(3) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the curl_easy_setopt options corner of the gnurl manual — this one's about content decoding and it's honestly shorter than my attention span, so let's go ✨

💅 NAME 💅

CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING — the little switch that turns HTTP content decoding on or off. yes queen, that's literally it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING,
                          long enabled);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so you pass a long in there and it tells libcurl how to act on content decoding. the vibes are:

• set it to zero ➡️ content decoding gets disabled, bye 👋
• set it to 1 ➡️ content decoding is enabled, slay 💅

⚠️ and this is the important part, bestie: libcurl has no default content decoding on its own — it literally requires you to use CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) for that. so don't come for libcurl asking why nothing's being decoded when you never told it anything. iykyk 😭

🦋 DEFAULT 🦋

1

(not her being on by default and still needing CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) — the audacity, honestly 🔥)

🌈 PROTOCOLS 🌈

HTTP

that's the whole list. one protocol. main character energy 👑

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  CURLcode ret;
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, 0L);
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

see how she passes 0L? that's decoding off, bestie. ate and left no crumbs 💀

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

added in 7.16.2 — a whole elder, lowkey iconic for it 🧚

💖 RETURN VALUE 💖

• returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported 🎀
• returns CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if it's not 🙈

no in-between, no drama.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• CURLOPT_STDERR(3)
• CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3)
• CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! mwah 💜 this lil slice of the gnurl world is brought to you by libcurl 7.37.0, dated 19 Jun 2014 — yes she's vintage, and yes she still serves 🫶✨