From 26d3b9e7b922af22549470c4af804b734424cac6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:04:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] compressed.md: might generate a huge amount of bytes

Make sure this is not a surprise

Closes #20028
---
 docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md
index 35bbab8139..a66cdff4fd 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.md
@@ -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.