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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.39
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index aa2a3aff2..6452c2a2c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1259,9 +1259,12 @@ 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.
-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.
+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.
+
+Do NOT use this option if you also use \fICURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH\fP as it will
+effectively break that feature then.
(This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPLISTONLY up to 7.16.4)
.IP CURLOPT_APPEND