libcurl — Keep Connection “open” to Upload Multiple Files (FTP)

Question

I need to upload directories to a FTP server on my application, and plan to use libcurl. I see there is no direct way to upload a directory with many files, which m

Answer 1

Just re-use the same handle, and it will keep the connection open as much as possible and subsequent transfers will re-use the previous one.

When you use the easy interface, the connection cache is kept within the easy handle. If you instead use the multi interface, the connection cache will be kept within the multi handle and will be shared among all the easy handles that are used within the same multi handle.