curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD.md
Viktor Szakats d01d2ec9f1
docs: add CURLOPT type change history, drop casts where present
Some CURLOPT constants defined in the curl public headers were initially
enums (= ints), or macros with bare numeric values. Recent curl releases
upgraded them to `long` constants, to make them pass correctly to
`curl_easy_setop()` by default, i.e. without requiring a `(long)` cast.

This patch drops such casts from the examples embedded in the docs. At
the same time it documents which curl release made them `long` types,
to keep them useful when working with previous libcurl versions.

Also:
- drop a `(long)` cast that was never necessary.
- CURLOPT_ALTSVC_CTRL.md: bump local copy of macros to long.
- test1119: make it ignore symbols ending with an underscore, to skip
  wildcard, e.g. `**CURLAUTH_***`.

Closes #18130
2025-08-02 00:05:33 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
Protocol:
- FTP
See-also:
- CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY (3)
- CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP (3)
Added-in: 7.15.1
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD - select directory traversing method for FTP
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#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%
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
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, CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
~~~
# HISTORY
**CURLFTPMETHOD_*** enums became `long` types in 8.16.0, prior to this version
a `long` cast was necessary when passed to curl_easy_setopt(3).
# %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).