Subject: Re: Can HTTP proxy support be added for SFTP transfers?

Re: Can HTTP proxy support be added for SFTP transfers?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 22:30:25 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Bob K wrote:

> I was wondering if proxy support could be added. Unfortunately this is
> outside my knowledge. Is this possible? Something libssh2 handles or I'd
> need some other lib?

libssh2 doesn't handle that, but it is left for the application to do by
itself. HTTP and auth and all that comes with it is quite a lot of code that's
not a job for libssh2.

Incidently, libcurl speaks SFTP over HTTP proxies with the help of libssh2... 

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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