On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Anders Havn wrote:

> So to be sure that it works on all ftp servers I should properly stick to
> CURLFTPMETHOD_MULTICWD?

That's the safest method yes and that's why it is done so by default. But
we've seen individual special cases in the past where one of the other methods
worked better...

> What about the curl handle, can I keep working on the same instance the
> programs life-time and therefore only curl_easy_init() once? Or can the
> handle somehow get invalid so the call to curl_easy_perform() fails?

You can safely keep re-using an easy handle for as long as you like. Just set
the options you like before the next curl_easy_perform().

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