On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, vishnu kumar wrote:

> I am doing a ftp upload from the linux machine to a windows FTP server.
> I read the documentation CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT. In that it says default mode
> is binary, but when i set curlopt_transfertext as false then only its
> working correctly in binary mode.

It is a known flaw.

See docs/KNOWN_BUGS #21: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html

I'll be happy to receive patches to improve this - but given how long we've
had this lack of function my guess is that the amount of people who truly care
about proper FTP ASCII support is diminishingly small.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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