Re: Need for SFTP package, including API
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:46:44 -0500
"Donald V" <ask-me-later@maybe.com> wrote in message
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I have been doing research on Secure FTP for a future business client.
They wish to implement SFTP for document transport, and I will be
writing C++ code under Windows to manage it.
From the research I've done already, it seems most sftp server packages
are proprietary but conform to the standard (RFC 2228). I know that OpenSSH
provides a free sftp server but I can't find a version for Win32, and it
seems that it doesn't port to Win32 well. (Ultimately this Win32 server
requirement may not be necessary.) It might also be provided by default in
Windows Server 2003, but I can't find any information on MSDN's site about
sftp at all (GOSH that's the worst search tool ever).
Save yourself some grief: Either use the CygWin implementation of OpenSSH
with SFTP capability, or strongly consider using a Linux/UNIX based file
server, or even consider using WebDAV as part of an HTTPS based document
access and control system. WebDAV over HTTPS is built right into Win2K and
WinXP, and is supported by the Konqueror browser and the DAVexplor Java
tools for other OS's.
I'm getting very fond of HTTPS based WebDAV: it just makes life simpler for
the users to have that web-like access to their files, and I can control it
very tightly via normal Apache configurations rather than trying to restrict
SSH tools to prevent shell access.
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