On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Daniel Karunairatnam <
daniel.karunairatnam_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Ray Satiro <raysatiro_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/19/2014 4:43 AM, Daniel Karunairatnam wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to use libcurl in Visual Studio Express C++ 2010 (Windows 8)
>> to upload and append files to an sftp server.
>> I am using the following code (taken from
>> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/sftpget.html, with a few changes).
>>
>> ...
>>
>> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
>> "10.1.1.4");
>> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PORT, 22);
>>
>>
>> That's just like writing http://10.1.1.4:22 it's going override the port
>> as 22 but it's still HTTP. You need the sftp:// just like in the example.
>> If sftp and your port is 22 you don't need to specify it either in the URL
>> or via CURLOPT_PORT.
>>
>> #ifndef DISABLE_SSH_AGENT
>> /* We activate ssh agent. For this to work you need
>> to have ssh-agent running (type set | grep SSH_AGENT to check) or
>> pageant on Windows (there is an icon in systray if so) */
>> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES, CURLSSH_AUTH_AGENT);
>> #endif
>>
>>
>> Do you have an ssh agent? The example undefs DISABLE_SSH_AGENT so even if
>> you define it it's undefined. If you don't have an SSH agent change line 29
>> to #define DISABLE_SSH_AGENT.
>>
> I had pageant running.
>
>>
>> I have similar experiences using both the private server I need to
>> connect to, and a server I set up using freeSSHd.
>> If I use sftp:// before the ip address/hostname, i get a stack error. it
>> says the stack around variable hash is corrupt.
>>
>>
>> freeSSHd may not set the home directory in a way that can't be understood
>> so click the SFTP tab and change the home directory to something other than
>> $HOME like your desktop. Also if you are running freeSSHd as a service try
>> disabling the service and running it directly from the GUI.
>>
>> I don't know why you're seeing stack errors but I tried your code and
>> connected to a freeSSHd 1.2.6 server and it seemed to work ok to download a
>> file and read the directory. However on this computer I only have an older
>> version of libcurl to test with that wasn't compiled using visual studio.
>> It can be found on the downloads page (7.34.0, libcurl, SSL, Günter Knauf).
>> curl 7.34.0 (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.34.0 OpenSSL/1.0.0l zlib/1.2.8
>> libidn/1.18
>> libssh2/1.4.3 librtmp/2.3
>> Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap pop3
>> pop3s rtmp
>> rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
>> Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN Largefile NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI libz
>>
>
> is it the 3.34MB file under win32-generic on this page?
> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
> are you running windows 8?
>
and if it is that file. how do I compile the example code? there is no
libcurl.lib file and visual studio studio throws up a link error in
response.

>
> Thanks for the help
>
>
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