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-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/compressed.d
index 26bc1514a..dedd0e9e2 100644
--- 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.