CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION(3)

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) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com");
    /* enable built-in compression */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION, 1L);
    /* Perform the request */
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(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)