On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:36:07AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Martin Galvan wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering if there's a facility to open an SSH connection and send
> >shell commands using the libcurl API itself rather than falling back to
> >libssh/2's API.
> 
> There isn't and there isn't likely to ever be one, IMHO. libcurl is for
> "transfers" and its API is designed and targeted for that. Adding extra
> stuff to issue SSH commands and everything that would entail and require to
> offer a decent API, I think would mean going outside of what our "mission"
> is about.

<cough> telnet <cough>

Actually, removing telnet support altogether might be reasonable in the next
major curl version bump.

Dan
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