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sftp_RW_nonblock.c
/* Copyright (C) The libssh2 project and its contributors.
 *
 * Sample showing how to do SFTP transfers in a non-blocking manner.
 *
 * It will first download a given source file, store it locally and then
 * upload the file again to a given destination file.
 *
 * Using the SFTP server running on 127.0.0.1
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 */ 
 
#include "libssh2_setup.h"
#include <libssh2.h>
#include <libssh2_sftp.h>
 
#ifdef WIN32
#define write(f, b, c)  write((f), (b), (unsigned int)(c))
#endif
 
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
#include <sys/socket.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
#include <unistd.h>
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_NETINET_IN_H
#include <netinet/in.h>
#endif
 
#include <stdio.h>
 
static const char *pubkey = "/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub";
static const char *privkey = "/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa";
static const char *username = "username";
static const char *password = "password";
static const char *sftppath = "/tmp/TEST"; /* source path */ 
static const char *dest = "/tmp/TEST2";    /* destination path */ 
static const char *storage = "/tmp/sftp-storage"; /* local file name to store
                                                     the downloaded file in */ 
 
static int waitsocket(libssh2_socket_t socket_fd, LIBSSH2_SESSION *session)
{
    struct timeval timeout;
    int rc;
    fd_set fd;
    fd_set *writefd = NULL;
    fd_set *readfd = NULL;
    int dir;
 
    timeout.tv_sec = 10;
    timeout.tv_usec = 0;
 
    FD_ZERO(&fd);
 
    FD_SET(socket_fd, &fd);
 
    /* now make sure we wait in the correct direction */ 
    dir = libssh2_session_block_directions(session);

 
    if(dir & LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_INBOUND)
        readfd = &fd;
 
    if(dir & LIBSSH2_SESSION_BLOCK_OUTBOUND)
        writefd = &fd;
 
    rc = select((int)(socket_fd + 1), readfd, writefd, NULL, &timeout);
 
    return rc;
}
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    libssh2_socket_t sock;
    int i, auth_pw = 1;
    struct sockaddr_in sin;
    const char *fingerprint;
    int rc;
    LIBSSH2_SESSION *session = NULL;
    LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp_session;
    LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *sftp_handle;
    FILE *tempstorage = NULL;
    char mem[1000];
    struct timeval timeout;
    fd_set fd;
    fd_set fd2;
 
#ifdef WIN32
    WSADATA wsadata;
 
    rc = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 0), &wsadata);
    if(rc) {
        fprintf(stderr, "WSAStartup failed with error: %d\n", rc);
        return 1;
    }
#endif
 
    if(argc > 1) {
        username = argv[1];
    }
    if(argc > 2) {
        password = argv[2];
    }
    if(argc > 3) {
        sftppath = argv[3];
    }
    if(argc > 4) {
        dest = argv[4];
    }
 
    rc = libssh2_init(0);

    if(rc) {
        fprintf(stderr, "libssh2 initialization failed (%d)\n", rc);
        return 1;
    }
 
    /* Ultra basic "connect to port 22 on localhost".  Your code is
     * responsible for creating the socket establishing the connection
     */ 
    sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if(sock == LIBSSH2_INVALID_SOCKET) {
        fprintf(stderr, "failed to create socket.\n");
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
    sin.sin_port = htons(22);
    sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(0x7F000001);
    if(connect(sock, (struct sockaddr*)(&sin), sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))) {
        fprintf(stderr, "failed to connect.\n");
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    /* Create a session instance */ 
    session = libssh2_session_init();

    if(!session) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize SSH session.\n");
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    /* ... start it up. This will trade welcome banners, exchange keys,
     * and setup crypto, compression, and MAC layers
     */ 
    rc = libssh2_session_handshake(session, sock);

    if(rc) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failure establishing SSH session: %d\n", rc);
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    libssh2_session_set_blocking(session, 0);

 
    /* At this point we have not yet authenticated.  The first thing to do
     * is check the hostkey's fingerprint against our known hosts Your app
     * may have it hard coded, may go to a file, may present it to the
     * user, that's your call
     */ 
    fingerprint = libssh2_hostkey_hash(session, LIBSSH2_HOSTKEY_HASH_SHA1);

    fprintf(stderr, "Fingerprint: ");
    for(i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
        fprintf(stderr, "%02X ", (unsigned char)fingerprint[i]);
    }
    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
 
    tempstorage = fopen(storage, "wb");
    if(!tempstorage) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open temp storage file %s\n", storage);
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    if(auth_pw) {
        /* We could authenticate via password */ 
        while((rc = libssh2_userauth_password(session, username, password)) ==

              LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN);
        if(rc) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Authentication by password failed.\n");
            goto shutdown;
        }
    }
    else {
        /* Or by public key */ 
        while((rc =
              libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile(session, username,

                                                  pubkey, privkey,
                                                  password)) ==
              LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN);
        if(rc) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Authentication by public key failed.\n");
            goto shutdown;
        }
    }
 
    do {
        sftp_session = libssh2_sftp_init(session);

 
        if(!sftp_session) {
            if(libssh2_session_last_errno(session) == LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN) {

                fprintf(stderr, "non-blocking init\n");
                waitsocket(sock, session); /* now we wait */ 
            }
            else {
                fprintf(stderr, "Unable to init SFTP session\n");
                goto shutdown;
            }
        }
    } while(!sftp_session);
 
    /* Request a file via SFTP */ 
    do {
        sftp_handle = libssh2_sftp_open(sftp_session, sftppath,

                                        LIBSSH2_FXF_READ, 0);
        if(!sftp_handle) {
            if(libssh2_session_last_errno(session) != LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN) {

                fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open file with SFTP: %ld\n",
                        libssh2_sftp_last_error(sftp_session));

                goto shutdown;
            }
            else {
                fprintf(stderr, "non-blocking open\n");
                waitsocket(sock, session); /* now we wait */ 
            }
        }
    } while(!sftp_handle);
 
    fprintf(stderr, "libssh2_sftp_open() is done, now receive data.\n");

    do {
        ssize_t nread;
        do {
            /* read in a loop until we block */ 
            nread = libssh2_sftp_read(sftp_handle, mem, sizeof(mem));

            fprintf(stderr, "libssh2_sftp_read returned %d\n",
                    (int)nread);
 
            if(nread > 0) {
                /* write to stderr */ 
                write(2, mem, nread);
                /* write to temporary storage area */ 
                fwrite(mem, nread, 1, tempstorage);
            }
        } while(nread > 0);
 
        if(nread != LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN) {
            /* error or end of file */ 
            break;
        }
 
        timeout.tv_sec = 10;
        timeout.tv_usec = 0;
 
        FD_ZERO(&fd);
        FD_ZERO(&fd2);
        FD_SET(sock, &fd);
        FD_SET(sock, &fd2);
 
        /* wait for readable or writeable */ 
        rc = select((int)(sock + 1), &fd, &fd2, NULL, &timeout);
        if(rc <= 0) {
            /* negative is error
               0 is timeout */ 
            fprintf(stderr, "SFTP download timed out: %d\n", rc);
            break;
        }
 
    } while(1);
 
    libssh2_sftp_close(sftp_handle);

    fclose(tempstorage);
 
    tempstorage = fopen(storage, "rb");
    if(!tempstorage) {
        /* weird, we cannot read the file we just wrote to... */ 
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open %s for reading\n", storage);
        goto shutdown;
    }
 
    /* we're done downloading, now reverse the process and upload the
       temporarily stored data to the destination path */ 
    sftp_handle = libssh2_sftp_open(sftp_session, dest,

                                    LIBSSH2_FXF_WRITE |
                                    LIBSSH2_FXF_CREAT,
                                    LIBSSH2_SFTP_S_IRUSR |
                                    LIBSSH2_SFTP_S_IWUSR |
                                    LIBSSH2_SFTP_S_IRGRP |
                                    LIBSSH2_SFTP_S_IROTH);
    if(sftp_handle) {
        size_t nread;
        char *ptr;
        do {
            ssize_t nwritten;
            nread = fread(mem, 1, sizeof(mem), tempstorage);
            if(nread <= 0) {
                /* end of file */ 
                break;
            }
            ptr = mem;
 
            do {
                /* write data in a loop until we block */ 
                nwritten = libssh2_sftp_write(sftp_handle, ptr,

                                              nread);
                ptr += nwritten;
                nread -= nwritten;
            } while(nwritten >= 0);
 
            if(nwritten != LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN) {
                /* error or end of file */ 
                break;
            }
 
            timeout.tv_sec = 10;
            timeout.tv_usec = 0;
 
            FD_ZERO(&fd);
            FD_ZERO(&fd2);
            FD_SET(sock, &fd);
            FD_SET(sock, &fd2);
 
            /* wait for readable or writeable */ 
            rc = select((int)(sock + 1), &fd, &fd2, NULL, &timeout);
            if(rc <= 0) {
                /* negative is error
                   0 is timeout */ 
                fprintf(stderr, "SFTP upload timed out: %d\n",
                        rc);
                break;
            }
        } while(1);
        fprintf(stderr, "SFTP upload done.\n");
    }
    else {
        fprintf(stderr, "SFTP failed to open destination path: %s\n",
                dest);
    }
 
    libssh2_sftp_shutdown(sftp_session);

 
shutdown:
 
    if(session) {
        libssh2_session_disconnect(session, "Normal Shutdown");

        libssh2_session_free(session);

    }
 
    if(sock != LIBSSH2_INVALID_SOCKET) {
        shutdown(sock, 2);
#ifdef WIN32
        closesocket(sock);
#else
        close(sock);
#endif
    }
 
    if(tempstorage)
        fclose(tempstorage);
 
    fprintf(stderr, "all done\n");
 
    libssh2_exit();

 
    return 0;
}
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