OpenSSH GSoC Project

[Iain Morgan]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:58:49 -0500, Peter Stuge wrote:
> 
> sftp (and to a degree SFTP, the protocol itself) can easily be
> changed and improved. Even the user interface can (and should)
> change, for the better. SFTP is the future.
> 
> The OpenSSH sftp client is, as said, not so impressive, and it needs
> some love to really shine. The tool can be improved in many ways,
> internally and externally. Recursive transfers is just one thing.
> 

As long as improvements to sftp are being discussed, the addition of
reget/reput support would be _very_ nice. I know the topic has come up
on the mailing list a few times and there was at least one bug opened on
this issue. But, unfortunately, it never seemed to get much traction.

When dealing with large transfers (100GB+), the ability to resume an
interupted transfer would be very handy. 

-- 
Iain Morgan