From 94bd01310b4a55b8d9cf0821fed4eb70a7e7aca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:33:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] compressed.d: it's a request, not an order

Clarified

Reported-by: Dan Jacobson
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Fixes #7516
Closes #7517
---
 docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
index 26bc1514a5..dedd0e9e2d 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ 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 encoding, curl will
-report an error.
+report an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not
+deliver data compressed.