Re: Question about net/curl and SFTP

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:35 PM Vlad Meșco <vlad.mesco@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 12:19:19PM -0600, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 11:48 AM Allan Streib <astreib@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2023, at 12:37, Vlad Meșco wrote:
> > >
> > > > Curl is built without sftp or scp support; my guess is because "why
> > > > would you?"
> > >
> > > I would just use the sftp utility itself, except it doesn't allow
> > > reading the standard input for the data to transfer. curl does,
> > > thus my attempt to use it in this scenario.
> > >
> > > > You can do what I did: grab the ports tree, update net/curl/Makefile
> to
> > > > configure --with-libssh (and add libssh as a dependency), make
> package
> > > > and make install.
> > >
> > > Yes, that's fine, I can do that. I guess I assumed there might be some
> > > other (breaking) reason that it was disabled. Thanks!
> > >
> > > Allan
> > >
> > >
> > You can also use plain ssh with something like:
> >
> > program | ssh -n user@host 'cat > /route/to/destfile'
>
> I agree with Abel, that's the best choice if you can ssh into the box
> (which is usually the case.) Although I think the use of `-n' in this
> case is dubious (doesn't that disconnect stdin?)
>
> You're right, I meant -T (dont' alloc pty). Just sent it from my (bad)
memory...


> If the target only allows SFTP and you want curl, I've attached my local
> patch.
>
> Theo made a point about not compiling everything into everything else,
> so do prefer using ssh and sftp over curl-with-all-protocols.
>
> Vlad
>
>
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/net/curl/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.180.2.2
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.180.2.2 Makefile
> --- Makefile 18 May 2023 14:03:36 -0000 1.180.2.2
> +++ Makefile 7 Jun 2023 18:22:42 -0000
> @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ SHARED_LIBS= curl 26.20
> CATEGORIES= net
> HOMEPAGE= https://curl.se/
>
> +REVISION=1
> +
> MAINTAINER= Christian Weisgerber <naddy@openbsd.org>
>
> # MIT
> @@ -13,9 +15,9 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE= Yes
> MASTER_SITES= https://curl.se/download/
> EXTRACT_SUFX= .tar.xz
>
> -LIB_DEPENDS= www/nghttp2 www/nghttp3 net/ngtcp2
> +LIB_DEPENDS= www/nghttp2 www/nghttp3 net/ngtcp2 security/libssh
> WANTLIB= c crypto pthread nghttp2 nghttp3 ngtcp2
> ngtcp2_crypto_openssl
> -WANTLIB+= ssl z
> +WANTLIB+= ssl z ssh
>
> AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.71
> CONFIGURE_STYLE=autoconf
> @@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS= --with-openssl \
> --without-libgsasl \
> --without-libidn2 \
> --without-libpsl \
> - --without-libssh \
> + --with-libssh \
> --without-libssh2 \
> --with-ngtcp2 \
> --without-zstd
>