- 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"

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 9748d5bec..bdd293e07 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -953,6 +953,12 @@ connection
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. Disable the
 use of PORT with \fI--ftp-pasv\fP. Disable the attempt to use the EPRT command
 instead of PORT by using \fI--disable-eprt\fP. EPRT is really PORT++.
+
+Starting in 7.19.5, you can append \&":[start]-[end]\&" to the right of the
+address, to tell curl 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.
 .IP "-q"
 If used as the first parameter on the command line, the \fIcurlrc\fP config
 file will not be read and used. See the \fI-K/--config\fP for details on the
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