1 Long: ftp-method 2 Arg: <method> 3 Help: Control CWD usage 4 Protocols: FTP 5 Added: 7.15.1 6 --- 7 Control what method curl should use to reach a file on an FTP(S) 8 server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives: 9 .RS 10 .IP multicwd 11 curl does a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep 12 hierarchies this means very many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should 13 be done. This is the default but the slowest behavior. 14 .IP nocwd 15 curl does no CWD at all. curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a full 16 path to the server for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior. 17 .IP singlecwd 18 curl does one CWD with the full target directory and then operates on the file 19 \&"normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards 20 compliant than 'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'. 21 .RE 22
