From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:36:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: RESUME_FROM: clarify what ftp uploads do X-Git-Tag: curl-7_21_2~148 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cfdc4aca4560ffd71c0f549c4330f82a3b1fe23e;p=curl RESUME_FROM: clarify what ftp uploads do The numerical value passed to CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM for FTP uploads is interpreted and used as position where to resume the _reading_ of the local file and it will "blindly" append that data on the remote file. This was certainly not clear in the docs previously. Reported by: catalin Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3048174 --- diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 1704f6ad0..aa2a3aff2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -1539,6 +1539,10 @@ want the transfer to start from. Set this option to 0 to make the transfer start from the beginning (effectively disabling resume). For FTP, set this option to -1 to make the transfer start from the end of the target file (useful to continue an interrupted upload). + +When doing uploads with FTP, the resume position is where in the local/source +file libcurl should try to resume the upload from and it will then append the +source file to the remote target file. .IP CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. (Added in 7.11.0)