On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Wei Weng wrote:

>> But the commands are indeed in the "standard" (quotes since it is not yet
>> an RFC). The most recent draft I can find is here:
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13
>>
> This comment "confirmed" with my suspicion. :)
>
> SFTP is a binary protocol, so we don't send text commands to the server.
> Instead, we scan for commands for commands used by OpenSSH's sftp program
> and call the appropriate libssh2 functions.
>
> IMHO, it would much clearer if we can *also* send binary command (e.g.
> CURLOPT_SFTP_CMD_CHGRP, CURLOPT_SFTP_CMD_CHOWN) as part of the API,

Feel free to write down a suggestion on how this would work and post it here
for discussion. I don't quite see how these two suggested options would
work...

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