Re: Bypass root folder and directly cd to an ftp location

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 04:17:42PM +0000, Nimit Dhulekar via curl-library wrote:
> We're running into an issue when using libcurl (and curl). If the root folder
> of an FTP server denies access for security reasons and we want to directly
> connect to a different folder, this fails with a 550 Permission Denied. This is
> happening because curl is still making an initial connection to "/", and then
> calls cd to change to the requested folder.

I'm not seeing any CWD / with a plain "curl -v ftp://site/some/path" call using
the current git code. Perhaps this has something to do with other options your
code is setting. Try setting CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD to CURLFTPMETHOD_SINGLECWD
or even CURLFTPMETHOD_NOCWD and see if that helps.

Dan
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