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1*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
2*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerc: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al.
3*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong: ignore-content-length
5*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerHelp: Ignore the size of the remote resource
6*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerProtocols: FTP HTTP
7*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerCategory: http ftp
8*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerAdded: 7.14.1
9*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMulti: boolean
10*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerSee-also:
11*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - ftp-skip-pasv-ip
12*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerExample:
13*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker  - --ignore-content-length $URL
14*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker---
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16*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker# `--ignore-content-length`
17*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
18*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFor HTTP, Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for
19*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerservers running Apache 1.x, which reports incorrect Content-Length for
20*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfiles larger than 2 gigabytes.
21*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
22*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFor FTP, this makes curl skip the SIZE command to figure out the size before
23*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdownloading a file (added in 7.46.0).
24*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
25*6236dae4SAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThis option does not work for HTTP if libcurl was built to use hyper.
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