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-.TH CURLOPT_PREQUOTE 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_PREQUOTE 3 "June 18, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+
.SH NAME
-CURLOPT_PREQUOTE \- commands to run before FTP or SFTP transfer
+CURLOPT_PREQUOTE \- commands to run before an FTP transfer
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREQUOTE,
struct curl_slist *cmds);
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Pass a pointer to a linked list of FTP or SFTP commands to pass to the server
-after the transfer type is set. The linked list should be a fully valid list
-of struct curl_slist structs properly filled in as described for
+Pass a pointer to a linked list of FTP commands to pass to the server after
+the transfer type is set. The linked list should be a fully valid list of
+struct curl_slist structs properly filled in as described for
\fICURLOPT_QUOTE(3)\fP. Disable this operation again by setting a NULL to this
option.
+
+While \fICURLOPT_QUOTE(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_POSTQUOTE(3)\fP work for SFTP,
+this option does not.
.SH DEFAULT
NULL
.SH PROTOCOLS
-FTP and SFTP
+FTP
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+struct curl_slist *h = NULL;
+h = curl_slist_append(h, "SYST");
+
+curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/foo.bin");
+
+ /* pass in the FTP commands to run */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PREQUOTE, headerlist);
+
+ ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Along with the protocol support
.SH RETURN VALUE