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@@ -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