Re: library/binding for sftp?

[Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de]

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On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, David Thompson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:06:46 -0400
> From: David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> Subject: Re: library/binding for sftp?
> 
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:14:47 +0200, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> <snip: other issues about security>
>
>>> If you need public connections, then surely use SSH.
>>
>> Agreed. Which is what the OP has been asking about, namely sftp (which is
>> ftp + ssh).
>>
> Not quite. SFTP is a new protocol which provides functions similar to
> and clearly based on FTP, run over SSH, but SFTP is not the same as
> FTP over SSH (which is technically possible but rarely if ever used).

I am aware of that. SFTP uses SSH and provides the FTP functionality, to 
the user, but inenally it is very different from the awfully complex FTP 
over SSH.

> As a user you can generally ignore the difference -- you still type
> DIR and GET and PUT and it looks about the same -- but if you are
> implementing the protocol it makes a big difference and even if you're
> just binding to an existing implementation, which was the start to
> this thread, some differences may be significant.



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