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Re: sftp file name with special character curl: (78) Could not open remote file for reading: No such file or directory.

From: Michael Lee <michaellee22_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 22:08:39 -0500

Please ignore the previous post, as the 2nd server worked too after
re-link the application.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Michael Lee <michaellee22_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear curl-users,
>
> We are getting error curl: (78) Could not open remote file for
> reading: No such file or directory.
>
> The name of the remote file is "#165993.zip", as you can see it starts
> with special character # .
>
> I know that we needs to escape # as %23, however the following command
> line worked on one sftp server (Red Hat Enterprice Linux Server
> release 7.2) and failed on another sftp server whose OS is unknown.
>
> curl -u username:password -O sftp://10.10.10.10/special/%23165993.zip
>
> In our test program, we use curl_easy_setopt(_curl, CURLOPT_URL, URL)
> function and the URL filename does have escaped version of #. It has
> the same behavior.
>
> Here is our lib curl version: libcurl/7.50.1 OpenSSL/1.0.1t zlib/1.2.3
> libssh2/1.7.0
>
> Could anyone shed some light what could go wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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Received on 2016-12-06