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Toby Peterson added CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to the library, accessible

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from the command line tool with --ignore-content-length. This will make it
easier to download files from Apache 1.x (and similar) servers that are
still having problems serving files larger than 2 or 4 GB. When this option
is enabled, curl will simply have to wait for the server to close the
connection to signal end of transfer. I wrote test case 269 that runs a
simple test that this works.
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Daniel Stenberg
2005-08-24 10:57:28 +00:00
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See also the \fI-A/--user-agent\fP and \fI-e/--referer\fP options.
This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.
.IP "--ignore-content-length"
(HTTP)
Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for servers
running Apache 1.x, which will report incorrect Content-Length for files
larger than 2 gigabytes.
.IP "-i/--include"
(HTTP)
Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header includes things

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Enforce HTTP 1.0 requests.
.IP CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1
Enforce HTTP 1.1 requests.
.IP CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH
Ignore the Content-Length header. This is useful for Apache 1.x which will
report incorrect content length for files over 2 gigabytes. If this option
is used, curl will not be able to accurately report progress, and will
simply stop the download when the server ends the connection.
.RE
.SH FTP OPTIONS
.IP CURLOPT_FTPPORT