At least for me scp download doesn't ever detect it is done. Tracing
through with gdb it reads the data, but never gets any signals saying
there is no data or the connection has closed, and it looks like it
is still open. The following simple patch seems to fix it.

Index: lib/ssh.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/curl/curl/lib/ssh.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 ssh.c
--- lib/ssh.c 24 Nov 2006 22:14:40 -0000 1.6
+++ lib/ssh.c 25 Nov 2006 00:31:30 -0000
@@ -560,6 +560,9 @@
      }
      /* download data */
      bytecount = (curl_off_t) sb.st_size;
+
+ conn->data->reqdata.maxdownload = sb.st_size;
+
      res = Curl_setup_transfer(conn, FIRSTSOCKET,
                                bytecount, FALSE, NULL, -1, NULL);
    }

Jim

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