Yeah, I don't. I just wanted to say "different than." Am I the only who's annoyed that sftp had to be called "sftp"? It makes explanations that much more painful. :(
Scott On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> > > SFTP is different. An SSH tunnel is established and, within that tunnel, > a > > proprietary file-transfer mechanism is used. There's no real way to tell > if > > FTP is happening within that SSH tunnel, or HTTP, etc. > ></snip> > > > Scott > > > Scott - > > I don't think that you actually meant *proprietary*.... > It is of course very different from FTP and uses an open packet > protocol within the SSH tunnel, rather than a telnet-sh command > language like FTP. > > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > PS: Links to the slides or a recording of our recent Webinar "Using > SFTP on the z/OS Platform" can be found on our homepage above, and > contains more information on SSH/SFTP vs FTP. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
