libssh2

Sara Golemon, the founder and former maintainer of libssh2, pointed over the main site www.libssh2.org to my server the other day and now my previously unofficial libssh2 web site suddenly turned out to be the only and official one. The plan is now to get the web contents push into a separate git repo to allow [...]

There are only two open source libraries for SSH that I am aware of. At least that are at the fundamental layer, written in C. I researched the SSH library market years ago when I stuck with libssh2 as the one I thought was most promising, and since then I and others have taken it much [...]

… to libcurl and libssh2! I’m about to start this little mini adventure, so if you’re one of the guys out there who’s been looking forward to be able to do even more (Open)SSH-like things with curl and libcurl when we use SCP and SFTP then consider this a little notification to start listening! This will require [...]

I’m happy to announce that we now have a version 1.1 of libssh2 released! Noticeable changes this time include: Downloads using SCP or SFTP are now significantly faster Added a Libtool -export-symbols-regex flag to reduce the number of exported ... [More] symbols in shared libraries. Added a bunch of new man pages and renamed some of the previous ones Enhanced download [...] [Less]

I’ve played around with a possible new design for the libssh2 web site and I’ve put it up on libssh2.haxx.se for everyone to play around with and comment (on the libssh2-devel list please). The original and actual home page for the project is still over at www.libssh2.org but I’m not happy with that because of a [...]

There have been some well-founded criticism against libssh2 for a long time for its bad transfer performance when doing SCP and SFTP based transfers. Tests have proved it to be significantly slower than the openssh based alternatives in comparisons done in similar conditions. We’re talking down to a tenth(!) of the speed for SFTP. Luckily I [...]

I have two kids, aged two and five. In our home I get to see a fair amount of animated movies, and yes most of them are run over and over again as the kids for some reason like to see the same movie endless number of times. Anyway, what does a man like me do [...]

I’m a last.fm fan. I love its ability to not only stream music without needing a dedicated client installed (yes a flash application I think suits a purpose) and I think it’s ability to provide music I might also like is amazingly nice. I’m a “random it all” kind of guy when I listen to [...]

I had a great and relaxing winter/Christmas holiday and hence my silence here. I’m now back up to speed, with a podcast interview done yesterday (I’ll post another entry when it gets available), I do some funded development on libcurl and libssh2 in the background while I’m spending my days at my client’s place working on [...]

I’m happy to say that I’ve just uploaded the 1.0 release of libssh2 to sourceforge! (I must confess that I strongly dislike the “file release” thing of sourceforge but libssh2 has always been released there so I’m just continuing the tradition really…) The changes can be read closer in the package but the main things are [...]