CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS - create missing directories for FTP and SFTP

SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
#define CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE  0L
#define CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR       1L
#define CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY 2L
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                          long create);

DESCRIPTION
Pass a long telling libcurl to create the dir. If the value is CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR (1), libcurl may create any remote directory that it fails to "move" into. For FTP requests, that means a CWD command fails. CWD being the command that changes working directory. For SFTP requests, libcurl may create the remote directory if it cannot obtain a handle to the target-location. The creation fails if a file of the same name as the directory to create already exists or lack of permissions prevents creation. Setting create to CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY (2), tells libcurl to retry the CWD command again if the subsequent MKD command fails. This is especially useful if you are doing many simultaneous connections against the same server and they all have this option enabled, as then CWD may first fail but then another connection does MKD before this connection and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works.

DEFAULT
CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE (0)

PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects ftp only

EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
                     "ftp://example.com/non-existing/new.txt");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                     CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

HISTORY
CURLFTP_CREATE_* 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
Added in curl 7.10.7

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).

SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD(3), CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV(3)