CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING - HTTP content decoding control

Added in curl 7.16.2

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Pass a long to tell libcurl how to act on content decoding. If set to zero, content decoding is disabled. If set to 1 it is enabled. libcurl has no default content decoding but requires you to use CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3) for that.

int main(void) { 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); } }

CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING - HTTP content decoding control

This functionality affects http only

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING, long enabled);