Long: ignore-content-length Help: Ignore the size of the remote resource Protocols: FTP HTTP Category: http ftp Example: --ignore-content-length $URL Added: 7.14.1 See-also: ftp-skip-pasv-ip --- For HTTP, Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for servers running Apache 1.x, which will report incorrect Content-Length for files larger than 2 gigabytes. For FTP (since 7.46.0), skip the RETR command to figure out the size before downloading a file. This option does not work for HTTP if libcurl was built to use hyper.