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CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.3: Follow-up clarification

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Mention possible content-length mismatch with sum of bytes reported
by write callbacks when auto decoding is enabled.

See #785
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Isaac Boukris 2016-04-23 15:52:04 +03:00 committed by Daniel Stenberg
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@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ Servers might respond with Content-Encoding even without getting a
Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different Accept-Encoding: in the request. Servers might respond with a different
Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request. Content-Encoding than what was asked for in the request.
The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to be The Content-Length: servers send for a compressed response is supposed to
for the compressed content but sending the size for the non-compressed version indicate the length of the compressed content so when auto decoding is enabled
of the resource is a very common mistake. it may not match the sum of bytes reported by the write callbacks (although,
sending the length of the non-compressed content is a common server mistake).
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