NAME

       CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD - select directory traversing method for FTP

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD,
                                 long method);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass a long telling libcurl which method to use to reach a file on a FTP(S) server.

       This option exists because some server implementations are not compliant to what the standards say should
       work.

       The argument should be one of the following alternatives:

       CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD
              libcurl does a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep hierarchies this
              means  many  commands.  This  is  how RFC 1738 says it should be done. This is the default but the
              slowest behavior.

       CURLFTPMETHOD_NOCWD
              libcurl makes no CWD at all. libcurl does SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and gives a full path to the server
              for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior since it skips having to change directories.

       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'.

DEFAULT

       CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD

PROTOCOLS

       FTP

EXAMPLE

       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode res;
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/1/2/3/4/new.txt");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD,
                            (long)CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD);

           res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in 7.15.1

RETURN VALUE

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

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY(3), CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP(3)