From 5f47fd76b07870e93d49d4ffb6041e6620391062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg 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 --- 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..57cf8a936b 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.