curl-users
Re: how to change to higher dir?
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:48:18 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:48:18 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Barry Ringuet wrote:
> hi, using curl 7.8, trying this:
7.8? That is very soon 4 years old...
> have confirmed that somedir can be cd'd to, interactively, but have to do
> cd /somedir after logging in...
>
> this is kinda what I want to do:
> curl -O -v -u someuser:somepass
> ftp://some.ftpserver.com/../somedir/somefile
> but, obviously, can't...
Why can't you?
... or why not use an extra slash before the first dir:
ftp://some.ftpserver.com//somedir/somefile
The RFC-way of specifying a URL that changes to the root dir looks like this:
ftp://some.ftpserver.com/%2fsomedir/somefile
... which also is supported by (recent) curl.
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