sftp reget/reput

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 00:48, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> I would love to see a modification to the SSH protocol to support the
> ability for the client to ask the sever for a checksum without getting the
> physical data.
> 
> It would be useful in reget, and would be useful for people building more
> advanced features to detect file changes and download only the blocks that
> need updating.
> 
> I've thought of it off and on, but never sat down and implemented and
> wrote up a document on it.

Why not just run rsync? ;-)

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20030917/5c791b52/attachment.bin