composer: curl error 23 when updating custom repository

Edit: How to Fix

Run brew reinstall curl to get the latest curl and fix this issue

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Hi,

from yesterday composer started giving me this error when I’m using a custom repository:

curl error 23 while downloading https://<private-repo-url>/packages.json: Failed writing received data to disk/application

After many tries to fix this problem, I found that removing this line from CurlDownloader fixes the problem:

curl_setopt($curlHandle, CURLOPT_ENCODING, ""); // let cURL set the Accept-Encoding header to what it supports

I encountered this problem only on my mac, I tried with docker and it works.

Output of composer diagnose:

Checking composer.json: OK
Checking platform settings: OK
Checking git settings: OK git version 2.44.0
Checking http connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking https connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking github.com oauth access: OK does not expire
Checking disk free space: OK
Checking pubkeys: 
Tags Public Key Fingerprint: 57815BA2 7E54DC31 7ECC7CC5 573090D0  87719BA6 8F3BB723 4E5D42D0 84A14642
Dev Public Key Fingerprint: 4AC45767 E5EC2265 2F0C1167 CBBB8A2B  0C708369 153E328C AD90147D AFE50952
OK
Checking Composer version: OK
Checking Composer and its dependencies for vulnerabilities: OK
Composer version: 2.7.2
PHP version: 8.3.4
PHP binary path: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.3.4/bin/php
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 3.2.1 30 Jan 2024
cURL version: 8.7.1 libz 1.2.12 ssl (SecureTransport) OpenSSL/3.2.1
zip: extension present, unzip present, 7-Zip not available

When I run this command:

composer update --no-cache -v

I get the following output:

Loading composer repositories with package information

In CurlDownloader.php line 389:
                                                                                                                             
  [Composer\Downloader\TransportException]                                                                                   
  curl error 23 while downloading https://<private-repo-url>/packages.json: Failed writing received data to disk/application  
                                                                                                                             

Exception trace:
  at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/Http/CurlDownloader.php:389
 Composer\Util\Http\CurlDownloader->tick() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/HttpDownloader.php:392
 Composer\Util\HttpDownloader->countActiveJobs() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/HttpDownloader.php:363
 Composer\Util\HttpDownloader->wait() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Util/HttpDownloader.php:114
 Composer\Util\HttpDownloader->get() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php:1486
 Composer\Repository\ComposerRepository->fetchFile() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php:1195
 Composer\Repository\ComposerRepository->loadRootServerFile() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php:823
 Composer\Repository\ComposerRepository->hasProviders() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php:484
 Composer\Repository\ComposerRepository->loadPackages() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/PoolBuilder.php:401
 Composer\DependencyResolver\PoolBuilder->loadPackagesMarkedForLoading() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/PoolBuilder.php:251
 Composer\DependencyResolver\PoolBuilder->buildPool() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Repository/RepositorySet.php:326
 Composer\Repository\RepositorySet->createPool() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Installer.php:495
 Composer\Installer->doUpdate() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Installer.php:292
 Composer\Installer->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Command/UpdateCommand.php:251
 Composer\Command\UpdateCommand->execute() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php:298
 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:1040
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:301
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Console/Application.php:385
 Composer\Console\Application->doRun() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:171
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/src/Composer/Console/Application.php:145
 Composer\Console\Application->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/composer/bin/composer:93
 require() at /usr/local/bin/composer:29