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@@ -6,7 +6,52 @@ Changelog +Daniel (11 January 2006) +- I decided to document the "secret option" here now, as I've received *NO* + feedback at all on my mailing list requests from November 2005: + I'm looking for feedback and comments. I added some experimental code the + other day, that allows a libcurl user to select what method libcurl should + use to reach a file on a FTP(S) server. + + This functionality is available in CVS code and in recent daily snapshots. + + Let me explain... + + The current name for the option is CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD (--ftp-method for + the command line tool) and you set it to a long (there are currenly no + defines for the argument values, just plain numericals). You can set three + different "methods" that do this: + + 1 multicwd - like today, curl will do a single CWD operation for each path + part in the given URL. For deep hierarchies this means very many + commands. This is how RFC1738 says it should be done. This is the + default. + + 2 nocwd - no CWD at all is done, curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give + a full path to the server. + + 3 singlecwd - make one CWD with the full target directory and then operate + on the file "normally". + + (With the command line tool you do --ftp-method [METHOD], where [METHOD] is + one of "multicwd", "nocwd" or "singlecwd".) + + What feedback I'm interested in: + + 1 - Do they work at all? Do you find servers where one of these don't work? + + 2 - What would proper names for the option and its arguments be, if we + consider this feature good enough to get included and documented in + upcoming releases? + + 3 - Should we make libcurl able to "walk through" these options in case of + (path related) failures, or should it fail and let the user redo any + possible retries? + + (This option is not documented in any man page just yet since I'm not sure + these names will be used or if the functionality will end up exactly like + this. And for the same reasons we have no test cases for these yet.) Daniel (10 January 2006) - When using a bad path over FTP, as in when libcurl couldn't CWD into all |