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Re: libcurl FTP Quote Option

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:39:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> It looks like the 'dynamic' engine is special, and isn't supported by curl.
> Someone posted a patch two years ago to add support, but it wasn't completed
> and was never applied. See http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-02/0111.html
>
> On looking at the patch now, I think it would be worth considering a
> generic, tag:value based engine configuration option instead of defining a
> new libcurl option for each parameter. That would allow the same mechanism
> to be used by other engines as well.

Yeah, "all" it takes is someone to write the patch, the docs for it and then
stand up for his/hers work. That old patch never went anywhere since the
author simply stopped responding with a half-baked work...

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Received on 2007-04-03