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Daniel Stenberg 54ded66618

docs/libcurl: improve easy setopt examples

- always assign the curl_easy_perform() return code (and declare
  the necessary 'result' variable for it)

- always call curl_easy_cleanup() on the created easy handles

Closes #21364

2026-04-18 23:34:39 +02:00

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Title

Section

Source

See-also

Protocol

Added-in

curl

CURLOPT_APPEND

libcurl

CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3)

CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM (3)

CURLOPT_UPLOAD (3)

FTP

SFTP

7.17.0

NAME

CURLOPT_APPEND - append to the remote file

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append);

DESCRIPTION

A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to append to the remote file instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to an FTP site.

DEFAULT

0 (disabled)

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L);

    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

HISTORY

This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

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