SCP protocol question and outstanding requests in SFTP

[Chris Rapier]

Jan Pechanec wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Rapier wrote:
> 
>> Could you explain this in more detail or point out some resources that 
>> might explain some of the nuances?
> 
> 	something is here:
> 	http://blogs.sun.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works

Excellent, thank you.

>> SCP style arguments eg sftp blah user at foo:~/bar but that is, at best, 
>> far down the line in things I want to work on).
> 
> 	yeah, upload is missing (that's why I still use scp). This is mainly 
> for command line since you can feed sftp through standard input in scripts. 

This can get problematic in some scripting situations. Many of our users 
just find it easier to use scp rather.

> 	we plan to add command line upload for SSH OpenSolaris soon, if it's 
> not in OpenSSH CVS till then I'll send our patch.

Please do, I'd like to see how its done.