On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Tahin Dániel wrote:

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> My short question is: can I do with curl (with the windows or Linux
> version) to upload a file to a ratio FTP server, and after this is done,
> download an other file, without to close the connect with the remote
> machine. (There are some ratio servers on the web, so when I upload a
> file, then I get credit to download, but only for a short time. So when I
> disconnect from the server, then I lose this credit.)

Short answer: no, you can't.

Long answer:

1. It wouldn't be that hard to add this kind of functionality to the curl
   tool. However, I don't think the future of curl is to press every
   imaginable feature into one poor single command line tool.

2. The way to make this happen is to use libcurl from a scripting language.
   The interfaces for perl, tcl, ruby, python or php all enable the operation
   you ask about.

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