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17. SSH protocols
17.1 Multiplexing
+ 17.2 Handle growing SFTP files
17.3 Support better than MD5 hostkey hash
17.4 Support CURLOPT_PREQUOTE
@@ -799,6 +800,16 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs.
To fix this, libcurl would have to detect an existing connection and "attach"
the new transfer to the existing one.
+17.2 Handle growing SFTP files
+
+ The SFTP code in libcurl checks the file size *before* a transfer starts and
+ then proceeds to transfer exactly that amount of data. If the remote file
+ grows while the tranfer is in progress libcurl won't notice and will not
+ adapt. The OpenSSH SFTP command line tool does and libcurl could also just
+ attempt to download more to see if there is more to get...
+
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4344
+
17.3 Support better than MD5 hostkey hash
libcurl offers the CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_MD5 option for verifying the