gzip - Is there any way to get curl to decompress a response without sending the Accept headers in the request? - Stack Overflow

gzip - Is there any way to get curl to decompress a response without sending the Accept headers in the request? - Stack Overflow

Probably the easiest thing to do is just use gunzip to do it:

curl -sH 'Accept-encoding: gzip' http://example.com/ | gunzip -  

Or there's also --compressed, which curl will decompress (I believe) since it knows the response is compressed. But, not sure if that meets your needs.

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answered Sep 24 '13 at 14:21 FatalError 22.4k33266

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