On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Naved Khan wrote:

> A client application will use this cross-platform library to basically
> transfer CSV files to a server using SFTP. SFTP is not a requirement. If
> you know of a file transfer protocol that has standard APIs and that is
> secure, please tell me. I looked quickly at FTPS and it seems like a viable
> option. Do you think it would be substantially easier to implement FTPS
> client library rather than SFTP? Also, since libCurl supports FTPS, it
> might be a good option. Any suggestions on that?

If I were you, I'd go with making it use plain HTTPS PUT or POST operations,
as that is even easier to implement. Just get a web server with SSL support
(like Apache with mod_ssl) and upload the data with libcurl.

> Once, the files are successfully transferred, the client application will
> send a well formed XML request, to announce the upload and to take further
> actions, to the server. HTTPS will be used here. The standard errors I
> mentioned are any errors that might occur while posting the request and
> getting a response.

Ok, you basicly mean a good error code treatment then? If so, I think I can
say that libcurl meets this requirement.

> The requirement is to code programmatically so calling an executable is not
> an option here. Can libCurl be used in the scenario mentioned above?

It can indeed.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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