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Re: Adding libssh2 support to curllib

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:29:23 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, James Housley wrote:

>> Just post a patch here when you have something you feel like sharing! Are
>> you planning to support SCP as well while you're at it?

> The ftp protocol work is huge. How would you recommend I start? Is there a
> good protocol to emulate?

SFTP as supported by libssh2 is nowhere near the FTP protocol so I don't see
how that matters. (At least as far as I've seen of libssh2, which admittedly
isn't a lot.)

SFTP would probably rather be similar to how HTTPS is done, although we can
skip the entire header parsing stuff etc.

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Received on 2006-10-08