GNURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET(3)

🎀 GNURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET(3) 🎀

bestie, welcome to the curl_easy_setopt options manual — this page is all about CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, aka the tiny FTP switch with main-character energy. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET — enable the PRET command

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, long
       enable);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so you pass a long here. If the value is 1, it tells curl to send a PRET command before PASV (and EPSV). Certain FTP servers, mainly drftpd, require this non-standard command for directory listings as well as up and downloads in PASV mode. Has no effect when using the active FTP transfers mode. periodt. 🦋

🎀 DEFAULT 🎀

0 — no cap, that's the default. 🫶

🦋 PROTOCOLS 🦋

FTP only, bestie. 💜

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/old-server/file.txt");

  /* a drftpd server, do it! */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET, 1L);

  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

Added in 7.20.0 — vintage but still slaying. ⭐

💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

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

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPRT(3)
• CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV(3),

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🎀 that's the whole vibe, bestie. this page is from libcurl 7.37.0, dated 19 Jun 2014, and it's the GNURLOPT_FTP_USE_PRET(3) manual page. mwah 💋✨