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23 .TH CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT 3 "May 31, 2017" "libcurl 7.56.1" "curl_easy_setopt options"
26 CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT \- request a text based transfer for FTP
28 #include <curl/curl.h>
30 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, long text);
32 A parameter set to 1 tells the library to use ASCII mode for FTP transfers,
33 instead of the default binary transfer. For win32 systems it does not set the
34 stdout to binary mode. This option can be usable when transferring text data
35 between systems with different views on certain characters, such as newlines
38 libcurl does not do a complete ASCII conversion when doing ASCII transfers
39 over FTP. This is a known limitation/flaw that nobody has rectified. libcurl
40 simply sets the mode to ASCII and performs a standard transfer.
47 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
49 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/textfile");
50 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, 1L);
51 ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
52 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
58 Returns CURLE_OK if FTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
60 .BR CURLOPT_CRLF "(3), "