From 4f551259ddf79163660fdf44ec57b6ed2f409e50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:46:01 +0000 Subject: - Markus Koetter made CURLOPT_FTPPORT (and curl's -P/--ftpport) support a port range if given colon-separated after the host name/address part. Like "192.168.0.1:2000-10000" --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3