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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-08-23 00:36:11 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-08-23 00:36:11 +0200
commitcfdc4aca4560ffd71c0f549c4330f82a3b1fe23e (patch)
tree9b7cd12f2cfb56080a17ae80f540d63047baa374 /docs/libcurl
parentab6681c2c89ad985984e964c5d121340be011a91 (diff)
RESUME_FROM: clarify what ftp uploads do
The numerical value passed to CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM for FTP uploads is interpreted and used as position where to resume the _reading_ of the local file and it will "blindly" append that data on the remote file. This was certainly not clear in the docs previously. Reported by: catalin Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3048174
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 1704f6ad0..aa2a3aff2 100644
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+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1539,6 +1539,10 @@ want the transfer to start from. Set this option to 0 to make the transfer
start from the beginning (effectively disabling resume). For FTP, set this
option to -1 to make the transfer start from the end of the target file
(useful to continue an interrupted upload).
+
+When doing uploads with FTP, the resume position is where in the local/source
+file libcurl should try to resume the upload from and it will then append the
+source file to the remote target file.
.IP CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE
Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that
you want the transfer to start from. (Added in 7.11.0)