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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-06-26 10:08:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-06-26 10:08:08 +0000 |
| commit | 36461fb2aadb98bb25ae75b8167ab93d048d98a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 069200d1bc5c0061be41edc3925b60ce6734f998 | |
| parent | d8dcd5e472ae856901ba7d93477cf8c14b80eb50 (diff) | |
clarify that ftp ascii transfers don't do right in current libcurl
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 78a6d3798..e7995e55a 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -774,11 +774,15 @@ this data is sent off using the ACCT command. (Added in 7.13.0) .SH PROTOCOL OPTIONS .IP CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT A non-zero parameter tells the library to use ASCII mode for ftp transfers, -instead of the default binary transfer. For LDAP transfers it gets the data in -plain text instead of HTML and for win32 systems it does not set the stdout to -binary mode. This option can be usable when transferring text data between -systems with different views on certain characters, such as newlines or -similar. +instead of the default binary transfer. For win32 systems it does not set the +stdout to binary mode. This option can be usable when transferring text data +between systems with different views on certain characters, such as newlines +or similar. + +\fBNOTE:\fP libcurl does not do a complete ASCII conversion when doing ASCII +transfers over FTP. This is a known limitation/flaw that nobody has +rectified. libcurl simply sets the mode to ascii and performs a standard +transfer. .IP CURLOPT_CRLF Convert Unix newlines to CRLF newlines on transfers. .IP CURLOPT_RANGE |