On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 Zhuoqiong.Wu_at_alcatel-sbell.com.cn wrote:

> I am going to read the output from a pipe created on a remote server via
> curl. Curl exits and complains " not a plain file " . It seems that FTP
> doesn't support this usage. ?

I can't see how this is even a curl issue. Try any other ftp client and it'll
probably say the same. The message "not a plain file" is not something curl
has come up with, it only reports what the server says.

> Does anyone have any good idea?

Yes, make sure your FTP server supports reading from a pipe as if it was a
plain file.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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