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).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY(3), CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)