TclCurl SFTP connections.

[John Hamilton]

Is anyone using a UPOC to bring down or send via SFTP using TclCurl.

I have not used TclCurl yet from what I can tell it will support this activity.

But I was just curious as to if anyone has done this and would be willing to share that UPOC.

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[John Hamilton]

One more thing.

If anyone has any good book or webpage they like on TclCurl that would be appreciated as well.

I have found way to many web pages and most of them all deal with HTTP: stuff. Very little I have found so far on just doing a simple FTP SFTP kind of thing.

[Robert Milfajt]

Here is a good TCLCurl link for documentation.  There is an example of FTP too.

http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/docs.html#lbAM

Just google TCLCurl and SFTP and you should be able to get some answers.

I did a terse search and found that SFTP is supported and that you need SSH libraries.  You will need to figure out what all this means, but it should be a start.  One other person warned that SFTP is not FTPS, so beware.

Hope this helps,

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

[garry r fisher]

Hi,

I managed to get a SFTP connection but couldn’t get any further because I didn’t have the right libraries for SSH etc – This was on Windows. So yes it does work if you can get all the necessary libraries installed.

I just replaced the HTTP call with SFTP and added a few more SSH parameters in – See the Curl/TclCurl documentation for thses. I’ll check to see if I still have my test code but I don’t think I kept it. See below.

On Windows I used WinSCP and called a SFTP script from Tcl. This works fine for me.

Regards

Garry

[Max Drown (Infor)]

I’ve been using WinSCP for years and can speak highly of it. Very nice app.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[garry r fisher]

John,

If you download the full TclCurl package from the TclCurl site there are example files included – I used the FTP examples as my templates and got a part working script.

Hope this helps.

Garry

[John Hamilton]

Thnaks for the input.

I will do that.

My hope is I will get a script that will be generic enough to use for several differnt download type from several vendors.

I am in the process of automating several operations activities via this process. I will post the script when done in the tcl library here.

[John Hamilton]

For those of you that care or are intrested in this.

The currently supplied version of TclCurl with cloverleaf 5.5. does not support SFTP it does support FTPS. I have not confirmed yet if the next version 5.6 comes with the version of curl that supports SFTP or not.

[Jim Kosloskey]

John,

I do not want to speak for Healthvision but everything I have seen and heard is that Cloverleaf(R) will support FTPS not SFTP. I think that is true for 5.6. At the Regional User Conference last week in Indianapolis, I do not recall any mention of support for SFTP.

I do not know if that extends to the TclCurl extension included with Cloverleaf(R).

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[garry r fisher]

Jim,

The full TclCURL package does support SFTP but for me as a Windows user I didn’t have all the supporting libraries available to me (SSH etc) in a usable form but I did manage to establish a connection. On a *nix system where the libraries may already be built in or readily available I would have thought an SFTP script could be written using TclCUrl.

John – I’d be interested to hear how successful you are with this.

Regards

Garry

[Rob Abbott]

Just to add my $0.02 – I have not been able to get SFTP to work with cURL/TclCurl (any version).  It claims support but I just could not get it to work.  I tried for a couple hours and gave up.  This is on a Windows platform.

I ended up using WinSCP which works quite well.  I was able to call a WinSCP script from a protocol UPoC.

If anyone is able to get this to work I would be interested to hear.

Please note we provide cURL/TclCurl as a convenience and do not claim to support all of it’s features (exceptions are built-in drivers such as FTPS which uses cURL under the covers).  I have used the TclCurl HTTP client functionality extensively, it’s pretty bulletproof in my opinion.

Rob Abbott
Cloverleaf Emeritus

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