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Re: Reg: FTP file Upload, default and binary mode

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:53:51 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Michael Wood wrote:

> If I understand the question correctly he wants binary mode but found that
> he had to set CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT to "false" despite the documentation
> saying that binary mode was the default.
>
> So it does not seem to have anything to do with bug 21. Of course I could
> have misunderstood the question because it was not explicit and I think open
> to misinterpretation.

Ah yes, that may have been what he meant and then I was completely out in the
woods in my response!

libcurl's FTP transfers are truly binary by default (unless you ask for a
directory listing) and CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT should not be necessary to make it
so. I believe we have a bunch of test cases that verify this-

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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