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Re: sftp & scp

From: James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:10:59 -0500

On Dec 10, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Sharon Shaanan wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Up until recently I thought CURL does not support SCP & SFTP , just
> FTPS. Now I see ot support these protocols too….. J
>
> Is the code for implementing ftp client (user,password, perform….)
> is the same for implementing SFTP or SCP client??
>
> Do I need to change only the prefix of the url (scp:// or sftp://)
> or the apis are totally different?

The code to support scp:// and sftp:// is starting to be supported
and is experimental. But for basic send and receive it does work.
It used the curl interface for user,password, perform... as much as
the code has been written.

Jim

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Received on 2006-12-10