1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: ftp-method 5Arg: <method> 6Help: Control CWD usage 7Protocols: FTP 8Added: 7.15.1 9Category: ftp 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - list-only 13Example: 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 21Control what method curl should use to reach a file on an FTP(S) 22server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives: 23 24## multicwd 25Do a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep 26hierarchies this means many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should be 27done. This is the default but the slowest behavior. 28 29## nocwd 30Do no CWD at all. curl does SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and gives the full path to 31the server for each of these commands. This is the fastest behavior. 32 33## singlecwd 34Do 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 36compliant than `nocwd` but without the full penalty of `multicwd`. 37
