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Re: Getting Started

From: James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:04:28 -0400

On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Alan Wolfe wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm just getting started with curl (using the windows package named
> libcurl-7.13.1-ssl-zlib-ares.zip) and was playing around with the
> sample https.c.
>
> I noticed that in the URL line i can set https:// http:// and
> ftp:// addresses and it retrieves the files ok.
>
> When i tried sftp:// it said that protocol was unsupported though,
> and when i tried ftps it just kind of hung.
>
> Is there something special you have to do to do sftp? Or is it
> really unsupported in windows?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> Alan

That is a very old version of libcurl, sftp was added in 7.16.3

Jim

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