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CURLOPT_APPEND

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-19
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NAME

CURLOPT_APPEND - append to the remote file

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

This functionality affects ftp and sftp

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  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);
  }
}

HISTORY

This option was known as CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND up to 7.16.4

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.17.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(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).