NAME

CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION - enables compression / decompression of SSH traffic

SYNOPSIS

#include <gnurl/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

All SSH based protocols: SCP, SFTP

EXAMPLE

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 7.56.0

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING(3), CURLOPT_TRANSFER_ENCODING(3),