Added ftpget.c just to show that it is exactly as easy to get FTP files

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/ftpget.c b/docs/examples/ftpget.c
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+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _     
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |    
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |    
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___ 
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <curl/types.h>
+#include <curl/easy.h>
+
+/* to make this work under windows, use the win32-functions from the
+   win32socket.c file as well */
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  CURL *curl;
+  CURLcode res;
+  FILE *ftpfile;
+  
+  /* local file name to store the file as */
+  ftpfile = fopen("curl.tar.gz", "wb"); /* b is binary for win */
+
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    /* Get curl 7.7 from sunet.se's FTP site: */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
+                     "ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/curl-7.7.tar.gz");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FILE, ftpfile);
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+    /* always cleanup */
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+
+  fclose(ftpfile); /* close the local file */
+
+  return 0;
+}