CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3)                    curl_easy_setopt options

NAME
       CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS - create missing dirs for FTP and SFTP

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       typedef enum {
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE,
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR,
         CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY
       } curl_ftpcreatedir;

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                                 long create);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a long telling libcurl to create the dir. If the value is
       CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR (1), libcurl will attempt to create any remote
       directory that it fails to "move" into.

       For FTP requests, that means a CWD command fails. CWD being the command
       that changes working directory.

       For SFTP requests, libcurl will attempt to create the remote directory
       if it can't obtain a handle to the target-location. The creation will
       fail if a file of the same name as the directory to create already
       exists or lack of permissions prevents creation.

       Setting create to CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY (2), tells libcurl to retry
       the CWD command again if the subsequent MKD command fails. This is
       especially useful if you're doing many simultaneous connections against
       the same server and they all have this option enabled, as then CWD may
       first fail but then another connection does MKD before this connection
       and thus MKD fails but trying CWD works!

DEFAULT
       CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_NONE (0)

PROTOCOLS
       FTP and SFTP

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/non-existing/new.txt");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS,
                                CURLFTP_CREATE_DIR_RETRY);

         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.10.7. SFTP support added in 7.16.3. The retry option was
       added in 7.19.4.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if the create value is not.

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD(3), CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV(3),

libcurl 7.77.0                 November 4, 2020
                                            CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS(3)