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CURLOPT_APPEND

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: March 06, 2016
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NAME

CURLOPT_APPEND - enable appending to the remote file

SYNOPSIS

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_APPEND, long append);

DESCRIPTION

A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to append to the remote file instead of overwrite it. This is only useful when uploading to an FTP site.

DEFAULT

0 (disabled)

PROTOCOLS

FTP

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/dir/to/newfile");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_APPEND, 1L);

  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.