this looks like exactly what I needed. The dev as400 is down for maint
right now so I cannot test until tomorrow. Thank you for the suggestion

Jay

On 2016/09/07 7:08 , Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Jay Bartley wrote:
>
>> but when I try to pull a file that is listed I get the following
>> error. It seems to lose the 2nd '/' before the library name.
>>
>> curl -v --ssl-reqd --tlsv1.2 -n -O
>> ftp://machine.domain.com://SWSALIB/testfile.testfile2
>
> What do you mean? The slashes is what splits the path into different
> directories in an hiearchy. For each directory curl will do a separate
> CWD when traversing. In your URL above, curl will:
>
> 1. change dir to '/'
> 2. change dir to 'SWSALIB'
> 3. request the file 'testfile.testfile2
>
> However, for exactly the reason when the server doesn't seem to let
> you do this, curl offers a way for you to tell it to do this
> differently: the --ftp-method option.
>
> I've tried to detail how that option is used on this section of the book:
>
> http://ec.haxx.se/ftp-traversedir.html
>
> Does that help?
>

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