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authorSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-10-30 12:30:11 +0000
committerSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-10-30 12:42:05 +0000
commit89cc9988c9a87525e83828c4f1bdf5ac635cc02c (patch)
tree7b5a78d1b86faa4958aa32b8577102868f6bdc93 /docs/libcurl
parent697aa67d1837e830f109186fbd63966081d8ef24 (diff)
CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3: Added information about the usage in POP3
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.322
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3
index ef41d5c1b..a81f90766 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3
@@ -28,13 +28,18 @@ CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY \- ask for names only in a directory listing
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY, long listonly);
.SH DESCRIPTION
-A parameter set to 1 tells the library to just list the names of files in a
-directory, instead of doing a full directory listing that would include file
-sizes, dates etc. This works for FTP and SFTP URLs.
+For FTP and SFTP based URLs a parameter set to 1 tells the library to list the
+names of files in a directory, rather than performing a full directory listing
+that would normally include file sizes, dates etc.
-This causes an FTP NLST command to be sent on an FTP server. Beware that some
-FTP servers list only files in their response to NLST; they might not include
-subdirectories and symbolic links.
+For POP3 a parameter of 1 tells the library to list the email message or
+messages on the POP3 server. This can be used to change the default behaviour
+of libcurl, when combined with a URL that contains a message ID, to perform a
+"scan listing" which can then be used to determine the size of an email.
+
+Note: For FTP this causes a NLST command to be sent to the FTP server. Beware
+that some FTP servers list only files in their response to NLST; they might not
+include subdirectories and symbolic links.
Setting this option to 1 also implies a directory listing even if the URL
doesn't end with a slash, which otherwise is necessary.
@@ -44,11 +49,12 @@ will effectively break that feature then.
.SH DEFAULT
0, disabled
.SH PROTOCOLS
-FTP and SFTP
+FTP, SFTP and POP3
.SH EXAMPLE
TODO
.SH AVAILABILITY
-This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY up to 7.16.4
+This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY up to 7.16.4. POP3 is supported
+since 7.21.5.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
.SH "SEE ALSO"