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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 27894d562..e5b881458 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -372,6 +372,22 @@ the server, the standard behavior of curl is to fail. Using this option, curl will instead attempt to create missing directories. If this option is used twice, the second will again disable directory creation. +.IP "--ftp-method [method]" +(FTP) Control what method curl should use to reach a file on a FTP(S) +server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives: +.RS +.IP multicwd +curl does 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 but the slowest behavior. +.IP nocwd +curl does no CWD at all. curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a full +path to the server for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior. +.IP singlecwd +curl does one CWD with the full target directory and then operates on the file +\&"normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards +compliant than 'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'. +.RE .IP "--ftp-pasv" (FTP) Use PASV when transferring. PASV is the internal default behavior, but using this option can be used to override a previous --ftp-port option. (Added diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index d2d809741..14eee0cff 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -858,6 +858,23 @@ Exactly like \fICURLOPT_POSTQUOTE\fP, but for the source host. Pass a pointer to a zero-terminated string (or NULL to disable). When an FTP server asks for "account data" after user name and password has been provided, this data is sent off using the ACCT command. (Added in 7.13.0) +.IP CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD +Pass a long that should have one of the following values. This option controls +what method libcurl should use to reach a file on a FTP(S) server. The +argument should be one of the following alternatives: +.RS +.IP CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD +libcurl does 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 but the slowest behavior. +.IP CURLFTPMETHOD_NOCWD +libcurl does no CWD at all. libcurl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a +full path to the server for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior. +.IP CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD +libcurl does one CWD with the full target directory and then operates on the +file \&"normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards +compliant than 'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'. +.RE .SH PROTOCOL OPTIONS .IP CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT A non-zero parameter tells the library to use ASCII mode for ftp transfers, |