11-17-2014
What have you tried?
FTP is very simple and stupid. You may end up connecting and quitting to check, connecting and retrieving a file and quitting to retrieve a file and compare it locally, since ftp has no "if" itself, it will all be done in the shell.
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curlopt_ftp_alternative_to_user
CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER - command to use instead of USER with FTP
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER,
char *cmd);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a char * as parameter, pointing to a string which will be used to authenticate if the usual FTP "USER user" and "PASS password" nego-
tiation fails. This is currently only known to be required when connecting to Tumbleweed's Secure Transport FTPS server using client cer-
tificates for authentication.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.
DEFAULT
NULL
PROTOCOLS
FTP
EXAMPLE
TODO
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.15.5
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP(3), CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT(3),
libcurl 7.54.0 December 21, 2016 CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER(3)