compressed.md: might generate a huge amount of bytes

Make sure this is not a surprise

Closes #20028
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Daniel Stenberg 2025-12-19 09:04:16 +01:00
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@ -25,3 +25,6 @@ content is (still) compressed; while in fact it has already been decompressed.
If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl
reports an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not
deliver data compressed.
**WARNING**: when decompressing data, even tiny transfers might be expanded
and generate a huge amount of bytes.