[Bug-wget] Re: Wget

[Micah Cowan]

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t.clarke wrote:
> Hi
> apologies for contacting you direct - a very simple question;
> are there any plans to incorporate a secure-ftp facility into wget ?
> 
> I note that https is incoporated, so I assume the basic code for 
> secure-sockets
> is already present.  I have no idea how complex or simple the addition of sftp
> might be!

Eventually, yes. I believe someone had volunteered to start work on such
a thing; I don't know how far that got. But, I think you actually mean
ftps: sftp is an entirely different protocol, and will actually
represent significantly more work than ftps would mean, I believe.
Adding a new protocol means we probably need to refactor wget first, as
there is a lot of duplicated logic between the current HTTP and FTP
support modules.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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