Hello!

I'm looking for feedback and comments. I added some experimental code the
other day, that allows a libcurl user to select what method libcurl should use
to reach a file on a FTP(S) server. (I posted a very similar mail to the
curl-users list too, focusing on how to do these experiements with the curl
tool.)

This functionality is available in CVS code and in recent daily snapshots.

Let me explain...

The current name for the option is CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD and you set it to a
long (there are currenly no defines for the argument values, just plain
numericals). You can set three different "methods" that do this:

1 (multicwd) - like today, curl will do a single CWD operation for each path
            part in the given URL. For deep hierarchies this means very many
            commands. This is how RFC1738 says it should be done. This is the
            default.

2 (nocwd) - no CWD at all is done, curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give
            a full path to the server.

3 (singlecwd) - make one CWD with the full target directory and then operate
           on the file "normally".

What feedback I'm interested in:

1 - Do they work at all? Do you find servers where one of these don't work?

2 - What would proper names for the option and its arguments be, if we
     consider this feature good enough to get included and documented in
     upcoming releases?

3 - Should we make libcurl able to "walk through" these options in case of
     (path related) failures, or should it fail and let the user redo any
     possible retries?

(This option is not documented in any man page just yet since I'm not sure
these names will be used or if the functionality will end up exactly like
this. And for the same reasons we have no test cases for these yet.)

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