CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION - enable SSH compression

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  DEFAULT  PROTOCOLS  EXAMPLE  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

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NAME

CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION − enable SSH compression

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, long enable);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as parameter set to 1L to enable or 0L to disable.

Enables built−in SSH compression. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not do it.

DEFAULT

0, disabled

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects scp and sftp

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com");

/* enable built-in compression */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, 1L);

/* Perform the request */
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.56.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non−zero means an error occurred, see libcurl−errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3)

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