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Re: Character conversion for sftp

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:51:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, NAGASEKHAR BHUVANAGIRI wrote:

> Could someone advice me how the character conversion can be handled for
> sftp?

(I removed the libssh2 list as a receiver, this is a libcurl question)

Why would libcurl do any conversion of data when doing SFTP? SFTP is defined
as a pure binary transfer and you get the data exactly the way the server
sends it!

If you want to convert it somehow, then that responsibility is yours.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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