SFTP/SCP App?

[alt236]

If there is one app that i've been looking everywhere for, is a palm version of a sftp or scp client (ok its two apps :)) as I need it to upload/download files to my servers.

I am aware that there are none out there and I was curius to know if its a technical reason or just lack of a decent market size. Both reasons are quite acceptable, but if it there are no thechnical problems, I'll probably be able convince myself to sit down and do the porting myself.

[Clie Patra]

Don't know about SFTP/SCP, but there 's a good SMB client for PalmOS: SMBmate. I think it's available right here on 1src.

[RazrTX]

If there is one app that i've been looking everywhere for, is a palm version of a sftp or scp client (ok its two apps :)) as I need it to upload/download files to my servers.

I am aware that there are none out there and I was curius to know if its a technical reason or just lack of a decent market size. Both reasons are quite acceptable, but if it there are no thechnical problems, I'll probably be able convince myself to sit down and do the porting myself.

There are several free SSH clients, using that as a base and expanding it to include file transfer capabilities shouldn't be all that difficult...

Razr

[dustoff]

Megalauncher has a built in ftp app

[_Em]

For those of you talking FTP and SMB: SSH/SFTP/SCP are secure data connection utilities. They create an encrypted channel that all data travels over. The SSH specification incorporates secure terminal, secure copy, and secure forwarding - which in general terms means encrypted telnet login, encrypted file transfers, and encrypted private networking. The SSH clients for PalmOS only implement the encrypted login part of SSH.

SMB was designed for internal networks -- it is inherently insecure and should NEVER be used over the internet. When you enable SMB/Windows Filesharing, any network that can see this service has access to your computer's hard drive.

FTP was designed for internet file transfers before the Internet was a publicly available service -- it is also inherently insecure, as every router between you and your target can capture all the data being sent/received... PLUS, a third party can take over your FTP session if they know what port you're connecting to the remote server on.

I'd suggest someone look at porting the PuTTY package to PalmOS, as that is an open sourced full package solution for SSH.

[alt236]

Thanks _Em! You saved me the typing! :)

Hmmm... Yes putty's code does seem to be a good starting point.

But again, is there a technical reason it hasn't been ported yet (like, say, rar compression)? I can't think of anything, but just about everything else has been ported and a few apps that were saying they will include it in future versions never did so I'm a bit reserved...

[_Em]

Well, there are ssh2 terminal clients, so it seems to me that sftp and scp shouldn't be an issue, as they're mostly just a different interface to the same thing on the client side.

I doubt we'll ever see sshd ported to PalmOS though ;)

[yitzle]

Well, there are ssh2 terminal clients, so it seems to me that sftp and scp shouldn't be an issue, as they're mostly just a different interface to the same thing on the client side.

I doubt we'll ever see sshd ported to PalmOS though ;)
There are ssh2 terminal clients - for Palm or PC?
http://www.tussh.com/ is SSH2 for Palm
And there IS a rar for Palm - its a .jar and it works with WebSphere for some rar files

[alt236]

_Em was refering to the improbability of porting an SSH Deamon (Server) not the lack of clients :)

For the record, there is also pssh (http://www.sealiesoftware.com/pssh/) which seems to be more stable on nvfs devices.

Im curious about that jar file. Any ideas where I can find it?

[yitzle]

Im curious about that jar file. Any ideas where I can find it?
I'll send you a PM