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Re: How to download and rename/delete a file from a remote SSL ftp server by curl?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:20:26 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Liang Cai wrote:

> But how can I force a ASCII transfer mode? I tried "-B" and even ";type=A",
> and they didn't work.

It is a matter of definition. Both these ways make curl send a "TYPE A"
command to the server. The problem is that curl doesn't do the necessary data
conversion when it sends data that is supposed to be TYPE A.

This lack is mentioned in the TODO, but I don't know when or if this will be
fixed.

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Received on 2005-01-13