Re: Need for SFTP package, including API
From: David Magda (dmagda+trace031024_at_ee.ryerson.ca)
Date: 01/25/04
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Date: 25 Jan 2004 16:55:52 -0500
I don't know whether this is for Nico or Donald since at some point
some messed up the quoting.
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> writes:
> "Donald V" <ask-me-later@maybe.com> wrote in message
> news:8OOcnSZuitpwPJHdXTWc-g@speakeasy.net...
> 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
RFC 2228 is *not* SFTP. RFC 2228 defines extensions to regular FTP
(RFC 959). If you read the abstract form 2228:
Abstract
This document defines extensions to the FTP specification STD 9,
RFC 959, "FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP)" (October 1985). These
extensions provide strong authentication, integrity, and
confidentiality on both the control and data channels with the
introduction of new optional commands, replies, and file transfer
encodings.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2228.txt
I don't think this is even FTP-SSL/TLS since there is no RFC for
that, only a draft:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/msg25923.html
> 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).
Where is a LGPL C library available at:
http://www.0xbadc0de.be/projects/sshlib.html/
Other than that you'll either have to buy the SSH.com SDK, port
OpenSSH (BSD license) or implement your own. I'm pretty sure there
are other SSH/SFTP implementations, but they may not have accessible
libraries.
> Save yourself some grief: Either use the CygWin implementation of
> OpenSSH with SFTP capability, or strongly consider using a
[...]
But if he needs a library he may be programming client of some
kind. While linking together utilities is handy (even under Cygwin),
it is not always a viable solution.
-- David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, http://www.magda.ca/ Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI
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