libcurl inbuilt compression support or not

Question

I found an answer which told me that libcurl doesn't support compression.

libcurl (linux, C) - Is there a built-in way to POST/PUT a gzipped request?

But, somewhere else, I also found this:

Is there any compression available in libcurl

My question is, do I still have to compress strings on my own and then send them, or is that not necessary using libcurl?

Answer 1

Yes, if you send data you must compress that yourself before sending. There is no support for doing that "automatically" in for example HTTP (neither 1.1 nor HTTP/2).