On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, David Thompson wrote: > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:06:46 -0400 > From: David Thompson > 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: > > > >>> 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. > ------ I love the taste of Cryptanalysis in the morning! ------ --Stefan.Lucks (at) uni-weimar.de, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany--