ftp-method.md (1167B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Long: ftp-method 5 Arg: <method> 6 Help: Control CWD usage 7 Protocols: FTP 8 Added: 7.15.1 9 Category: ftp 10 Multi: single 11 See-also: 12 - list-only 13 Example: 14 - --ftp-method multicwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file 15 - --ftp-method nocwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file 16 - --ftp-method singlecwd ftp://example.com/dir1/dir2/file 17 --- 18 19 # `--ftp-method` 20 21 Control what method curl should use to reach a file on an FTP(S) 22 server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives: 23 24 ## multicwd 25 Do a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep 26 hierarchies this means many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should be 27 done. This is the default but the slowest behavior. 28 29 ## nocwd 30 Do no CWD at all. curl does SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and gives the full path to 31 the server for each of these commands. This is the fastest behavior. 32 33 ## singlecwd 34 Do one CWD with the full target directory and then operate on the file 35 "normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards 36 compliant than `nocwd` but without the full penalty of `multicwd`.