Recursive scp downloads?

[George Nachman]

Is there any way to do a "recursive" download using libssh2, like scp
-r? libssh2_scp_recv simply fails with an error when you give it a
directory, but perhaps there's a trick I haven't figured out yet?

[Daniel Stenberg]

Is there any way to do a "recursive" download using libssh2, like scp -r?
libssh2_scp_recv simply fails with an error when you give it a directory,
but perhaps there's a trick I haven't figured out yet?

That's still a missing feature in libssh2.

[bch via libssh2-devel]

On Jul 19, 2017 10:50, "Daniel Stenberg" <***@haxx.se> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, George Nachman wrote:

Is there any way to do a "recursive" download using libssh2, like scp -r?

libssh2_scp_recv simply fails with an error when you give it a directory,
but perhaps there's a trick I haven't figured out yet?

That's still a missing feature in libssh2.


Is that a thing that the sh protocol facilitates or would be worked-out as
a convenience feature?

-bch

[Peter Stuge]

Post by bch via libssh2-devel
Is that a thing that the sh protocol facilitates or would be
worked-out as a convenience feature?

Recursing through a hierarchy of files is not in any way part of
either the SSH protocol, the SFTP protocol or the SCP protocol.

It would have to be implemented entirely within the client.

Recommend SFTP over SCP.


//Peter
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[Daniel Stenberg]

Recursing through a hierarchy of files is not in any way part of either the
SSH protocol, the SFTP protocol or the SCP protocol.
It would have to be implemented entirely within the client.

Not entirely right? Since the client sends the recursive scp command line to
the server and then needs to correctly handle what it gets sent back.