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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY.3 | 22 |
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" |