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NAME

       CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS - create missing dirs for FTP and SFTP

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       typedef enum {
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE,
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR,
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY
       } curl_ftpcreatedir;

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                                 long create);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a  long  telling  libcurl  to  create the dir. If the value is CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR (1), libcurl will
       attempt to create any remote directory that it fails to "move" into.

       For FTP requests, that means a CWD command fails. CWD being the command that changes working directory.

       For SFTP requests, libcurl will attempt to create the remote directory if it can't obtain a handle to the
       target-location.  The  creation  will  fail if a file of the same name as the directory to create already
       exists or lack of permissions prevents creation.

       Setting create to CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY (2), tells libcurl to retry  the  CWD  command  again  if  the
       subsequent  MKD  command  fails.  This is especially useful if you're doing many simultaneous connections
       against the same server and they all have this option enabled, as  then  CWD  may  first  fail  but  then
       another connection does MKD before this connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works!

DEFAULT

       CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE (0)

PROTOCOLS

       FTP and SFTP

EXAMPLE

       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/non-existing/new.txt");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                                CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY);

         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in 7.10.7. SFTP support added in 7.16.3. The retry option was added in 7.19.4.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if the create value is not.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD(3), CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV(3),