Secure FTP

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Thu Jan 19 01:22:37 EST 2006


On Jan 18, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Devin,
>
> I don't know but in the case you don't, you can always make your  
> stack write a bash script and invoke it with shell() this way you  
> could tap on the power of popular unix command line tools such as  
> wget or cURL which can handle SFTP.

Or maybe using a shell command to do a scp to the server? Think that  
might work?

> If you're felling adventurous then you can try to implement the  
> SFTP protocol in rev using the SSL functions and the socket  
> commands but since I don't know about such protocol I cannot  
> recommend such task.

I don't think adventurous and foolhardy are the same thing. My mom  
always told me not to play around with sockets. :-)

Devin
>
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>
>> Can we do SFTP in Rev? Some hybrid of FTP and SSL maybe? I'm  
>> coming from an experience level in this area just one tick higher  
>> than compleat ignorance.

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University




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