On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

(talking to myself again)

> What if we instead made it work this way (using already supported options):
>
> Set CURLOPT_NOBODY to TRUE!

I've now committed code that is supposed to make this work in the next
release. Based on how you set the two options CURLOPT_NOBODY and
CURLOPT_HEADERS you control what kind of data an FTP download results in:

Result CURLOPT_NOBODY CURLOPT_HEADERS

Normal transfer FALSE FALSE
Only "header" TRUE TRUE
No transfer, no header TRUE FALSE

case closed! ;-)

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