SCP with Resume Feature

[rapier]

I think I saw a fallback in the code. I only looked at it quickly though.

On 4/6/21 8:42 PM, David Newall wrote:
> Is it really the end, though?  Maybe we need to maintain support of SCP 
> protocol for interoperation with servers and clients that don't do SFTP?
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Re: SCP with Resume Feature
> Date:     Tue, 6 Apr 2021 06:18:27 -0400
> From:     Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour at gmail.com>
> To:     Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>
> CC:     openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/5/21 6:22 PM, Damien Miller wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/1/21 1:50 PM, rapier wrote:
>>>> Howdy all,
>>>>
>>>> I know development on SCP is discouraged but being that it's still
>>>> in wide use I thought I would do some work some of my users have
>>>> been asking for and allow SCP to resume from a partial transfer.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to instead reimplement SCP in terms of SFTP, and 
>>> then add
>>> this feature to SFTP? My understanding is that such a 
>>> re-implementation is
>>> something many people have wanted for quite a while.
>>
>> Yes, and there are patches to do this awaiting review:
>>
>> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194
>>
>> -d
> 
> Sooner those get merged, the better, IMO. I for one will celebrate the end
> of the SCP protocol.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Demi
> 
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