On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Angus March wrote:

> It seems to me that libcurl wants to know everything it is doing before it
> begins the xfer. Is that true?

It depends on what you consider "everything" to be.

> Am I going to need to make one connection for listing the files and then
> another for downloading them? That would be a waste.

Don't confuse multiple libcurl requests with multiple connections. You'll have
to do the former but not the latter.

> headerlist = curl_slist_append(headerlist, "RETR " + file);

You can't do LIST/RETR/STOR etc in QUOTE commands. In other words: all
commands that open or use the data connection must be done using the URL to
specify the file/dir.

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