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diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index d7085b7f6..ce617138f 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -123,7 +123,13 @@ USING PASSWORDS PROXY - Get an ftp file using a proxy named my-proxy that uses port 888: + curl supports both HTTP and SOCKS proxy servers, with optional authentication. + It does not have special support for FTP proxy servers since there are no + standards for those, but it can still be made to work with many of them. You + can also use both HTTP and SOCKS proxies to transfer files to and from FTP + servers. + + Get an ftp file using an HTTP proxy named my-proxy that uses port 888: curl -x my-proxy:888 ftp://ftp.leachsite.com/README @@ -146,9 +152,23 @@ PROXY curl also supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies with --socks4 and --socks5. - See also the environment variables Curl support that offer further proxy + See also the environment variables Curl supports that offer further proxy control. + Most FTP proxy servers are set up to appear as a normal FTP server from the + client's perspective, with special commands to select the remote FTP server. + curl supports the -u, -Q and --ftp-account options that can be used to + set up transfers through many FTP proxies. For example, a file can be + uploaded to a remote FTP server using a Blue Coat FTP proxy with the + options: + + curl -u "Remote-FTP-Username@remote.ftp.server Proxy-Username:Remote-Pass" \ + --ftp-account Proxy-Password --upload-file local-file \ + ftp://my-ftp.proxy.server:21/remote/upload/path/ + + See the manual for your FTP proxy to determine the form it expects to set up + transfers, and curl's -v option to see exactly what curl is sending. + RANGES With HTTP 1.1 byte-ranges were introduced. Using this, a client can request |