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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2010-08-23 00:36:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2010-08-23 00:36:11 +0200 |
| commit | cfdc4aca4560ffd71c0f549c4330f82a3b1fe23e (patch) | |
| tree | 9b7cd12f2cfb56080a17ae80f540d63047baa374 /docs | |
| parent | ab6681c2c89ad985984e964c5d121340be011a91 (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
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 1704f6ad0..aa2a3aff2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ 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) |