compressed.d: it's a request, not an order

Clarified

Reported-by: Dan Jacobson
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Fixes #7516
Closes #7517

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
index 26bc1514a55ee919b4451905f802bf9d32ddb243..dedd0e9e2de669381eb4fa9d6828d772e7247175 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and
 automatically decompress the content. Headers are not modified.
 
 If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will
-report an error.
+report an error. This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not
+deliver data compressed.