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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
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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