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Description
Man page says
--compressed (HTTP) Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and automatically decompress the content. Headers are not modified. If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported en‐ coding, curl will report an error.
Well I did
curl --verbose --compressed --remote-name https://www.ncc.gov.tw/chinese/files/opendata/radio.csv
and --compressed got ignored, but no error was reported.
So maybe the man page should say:
This is a request,
not an order; the server may or may not do it.
like it does elsewhere.
I.e.,
If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported en‐ coding, curl will report an error.
Add: But no encoding is not an error.
I.e., better have a bigger disk ready, as curl gives you no way of stopping uncompressed downloads.
curl 7.74.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)