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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 6 |
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 9748d5bec..bdd293e07 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -953,6 +953,12 @@ connection If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. Disable the use of PORT with \fI--ftp-pasv\fP. Disable the attempt to use the EPRT command instead of PORT by using \fI--disable-eprt\fP. EPRT is really PORT++. + +Starting in 7.19.5, you can append \&":[start]-[end]\&" to the right of the +address, to tell curl 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. .IP "-q" If used as the first parameter on the command line, the \fIcurlrc\fP config file will not be read and used. See the \fI-K/--config\fP for details on the diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index eee750b57..e1ffeade1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -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 |