On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, thyros_at_op.pl wrote:

> When I connect to ftp I get 'Maxdownload = -1' message.

Hm, yeah that message is kind of silly and we should rather make that a debug
message instead of showing it to the world like this.

> I suppose this is some kind of file size limit but I can't find a way to
> change it (or is it just so simply that I can't see it).

-1 means that libcurl doesn't use any maximum limit anyway.

> I also get 'FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file' message
> but since my debugger refused to cooperate I can't check if it's connected
> with receiving files from ftp or just file list (I'm still working on it).

Just enable CURLOPT_VERBOSE and see what your server responds.

> I'd like to use SSH to connect with FTP.

libcurl doesn't support FTP over SSH. I'd suggest you use one of FTP-SSL, SCP
or SFTP instead.

> are the CURLOPT_SSH_* (including CURLOPT_SSLKEYPASSWD) only settings that I
> need to set?

The *SSH* ones are for SCP and SFTP, and the *SSL* ones are interesting for
FTP-SSL.

> And what next? Can I connect to the server as when I connect without SSH?
> Can I still use 21 port or maybe I have use 22?

I can't really tell, since I'm not sure which of the supported protocols
you're talking about here. I assume you speak about SFTP and then it uses port
22 by default, but you can of course use whatever port you like.

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