On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> So, the only transport layer agnostic way to get the size of a remote file
> is to start downloading it, but use a progress callback that always aborts?

Yes, I believe that's the only working way for SFTP atm.

> pycurl.SSLKEYPASSWD: 'rsa key passphrase',
> pycurl.SSH_PRIVATE_KEYFILE: privatekey,
> pycurl.SSH_PUBLIC_KEYFILE: privatekey + '.pub',

I just checked the code, and the above looks right.

> * SSH public key authentication failed: Unable to initialize private key
> from file

And this is a sign that the passphrase wasn't considered fine by libssh2.

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  / daniel.haxx.se