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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-06-29 20:46:01 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-06-29 20:46:01 +0000
commit4f551259ddf79163660fdf44ec57b6ed2f409e50 (patch)
tree42889b2d80a2a39bcbfe8aeef3cd9829de27a6d8 /docs/libcurl
parent9cb68c6e32f29ad5ba00195a164371006e26467a (diff)
- Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a port
range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like "192.168.0.1:2000-10000"
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.36
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index eee750b57..e1ffeade1 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1070,6 +1070,12 @@ be a plain IP address, a host name, a network interface name (under Unix) or
just a '-' symbol to let the library use your system's default IP
address. Default FTP operations are passive, and thus won't use PORT.
+Starting in 7.19.5, you can append \&":[start]-[end]\&" to the right of the
+address, to tell libcurl what TCP port range to use. That means you specify a
+port range, from a lower to a higher number. A single number works as well,
+but do not that it increases the risk of failure since the port may not be
+available.
+
You disable PORT again and go back to using the passive version by setting
this option to NULL.
.IP CURLOPT_QUOTE