List SFTP directory with libcurl

[bschaer]

Is it somehow possible to process a list of directory entries with SFTP without having to parse the entries from a text buffer?
If yes, I didn't find out how...

[dfandrich]

The best place for questions about the curl API is the curl-library mailing list, not here. But, have you tried the CURLOPT_DIRLISTONLY option?

[bschaer]

The problem is not that I can't list the content. But it's actually written with the write callback funtion registered with CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION. And from there I have to parse them manually which is not such an easy task, because spaces are used as field separators and at the same time can be part of file names.

And what I learned from the SFTP RFCs is, that it would be all available internally in non-textual form since SFTP uses a binary kind of protocol. So I think it's quite a bit cumbersome to parse it if it has already been available as separate fields.

I actually made same experiments with the FTP options CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH in conjunction with CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION. And what is passed to this callback function is exactly the kind of information I wanted. But it seems it's just working on FTP, and not on SFTP.

[bagder]

CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH could indeed be made to work with SFTP and I think it could work pretty smoothly. It just requires that someone rolls up their sleeves and get to work... 😉