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23 .TH CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD 3 "May 05, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
26 CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD \- select directory traversing method for FTP
29 #include <curl/curl.h>
31 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD,
34 Pass a long telling libcurl which \fImethod\fP to use to reach a file on a
37 This option exists because some server implementations aren't compliant to
38 what the standards say should work.
40 The argument should be one of the following alternatives:
41 .IP CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD
42 libcurl does a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For
43 deep hierarchies this means many commands. This is how RFC1738 says it should
44 be done. This is the default but the slowest behavior.
45 .IP CURLFTPMETHOD_NOCWD
46 libcurl does no CWD at all. libcurl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a
47 full path to the server for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior.
48 .IP CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD
49 libcurl does one CWD with the full target directory and then operates on the
50 file \&"normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards
51 compliant than 'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'.
53 CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD
58 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
60 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/1/2/3/4/new.txt");
61 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD,
62 CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD);
64 ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
66 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
72 Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
74 .BR CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY "(3), " CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP "(3), "