[olug] sftp using cURL

[David Walker]

curl -V
will tell you what protocols your curl is compiled to support.
My gentoo curl does not support sftp or scp by default either.

Dan Linder wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 08:53, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> i'm trying to push a file to an sftp server using curl. i keep getting a
>> "(1) protocol not supported or disabled in libcurl" error, but the cURL
>> website states....
>>     
>
>
> I can't speak for the curl command line program, but is "libcurl" part of
> the curl cli package, or is it separate? It could be that you need to get a
> recompiled version of libcurl that supports sftp.
>
> This link mentions that sftp is lacking due to some concern over package
> dependencies:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptSftpSupport
>
> You might want to download the curl source and try building it...or work
> with Ubuntu development to resolve the issues.  :-)  (yeah, the first option
> is much easier...)
>
> You could also try installing the curl.haxx.se pre-compiled version which
> says it has SSL:
> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>
> Dan
>
> (BTW, curl is at 7.19.4 as reported on this URL: http://curl.haxx.se/)
>
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