On Nov 24, 2006, at 2:38 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, James Housley wrote:
>
>>> Regarding SFTP. Can it be so that the calls we do to libssh2
>>> doesn't really trigger any download. We just do libssh2_sftp_open
>>> () and then libssh2_sftp_stat() and then starts waiting for a
>>> transfer. Is that transfer then really started at that point?
>>
>> It is just like fopen() to a file on your disk, the file is only
>> open. Nothing comes at you, you have to call fread() to get data.
>> The exact same is true with libssh2
>
> Yeah, I was afraid that is the situation. I don't really see the
> "right" solution here, given the current libssh2 API. Do you?
>

That is why I had to model it after file:// for the download part.
Because it works just like file://

Jim

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