CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT - request a text based transfer for FTP
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, long text);
DESCRIPTION
A parameter set to 1 tells the library to use ASCII mode for FTP trans-
fers, instead of the default binary transfer. For win32 systems it does
not set the stdout to binary mode. This option can be usable when
transferring text data between systems with different views on certain
characters, such as newlines or similar.
libcurl does not do a complete ASCII conversion when doing ASCII trans-
fers over FTP. This is a known limitation/flaw that nobody has recti-
fied. libcurl simply sets the mode to ASCII and performs a standard
transfer.
DEFAULT
0, disabled
PROTOCOLS
FTP
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/textfile");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, 1L);
ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Along with FTP
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if FTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_CRLF(3),
libcurl 7.81.0 November 26, 2021 CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT(3)
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