---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
  - curl_easy_getinfo (3)
  - curl_easy_setopt (3)
Protocol:
  - FTP
  - SFTP
Added-in: 7.15.4
---

# NAME

CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH - entry path in FTP server

# SYNOPSIS

~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH, char **path);
~~~

# DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a char pointer to receive a pointer to a string holding the
path of the entry path. That is the initial path libcurl ended up in when
logging on to the remote FTP or SFTP server. This stores a NULL as pointer if
something is wrong.

The **path** pointer is NULL or points to private memory. You **must not**
free it. The memory gets freed automatically when you call
curl_easy_cleanup(3) on the corresponding curl handle.

# %PROTOCOLS%

# EXAMPLE

~~~c
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com");

    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    if(!result) {
      /* extract the entry path */
      char *ep = NULL;
      result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_FTP_ENTRY_PATH, &ep);
      if(!result && ep) {
        printf("Entry path was: %s\n", ep);
      }
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}
~~~

# HISTORY

Works for SFTP since 7.21.4

# %AVAILABILITY%

# RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see
libcurl-errors(3).
