From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-26T08:57:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.4 "Happy Birthday To Me"

il Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:33:54 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> ha
scritto::

>gabriele renzi wrote:
>> thanks for this, I'm looking forward to see openuri-like support for
>> sftp stuff :) 
>
>Can you give me an example or two of the syntax you'd like to see? I'd 
>be happy to add something like it into Net::SSH, if at all possible.
>

well, I was thinking something really dumb like:

require 'net/ssh/open-sftp'
uri=URI.parse 'sftp://user@host.foo/file.txt'
# add magic to handle key/pass
txt=uri.open.read

btw this has the same problem that handling https with open-uri, wich
I think relates to proper key management.

Anyway, while playing with this I discovered that on windows open-uri
fails with ftp files, due to relying on dev/null:

>> u=URI.parse('ftp://me:foo@host.it')
=> #<URI::FTP:0x15663ac URL:ftp://me:foo@host.it>
>> u.open
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /dev/null
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:87:in
`initialize'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:87:in
`open_uri_original
_open'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:87:in `open'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/ftp.rb:497:in
`getbinaryfile'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:594:in
`direct_open'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:169:in
`open_loop'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `catch'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in
`open_loop'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in
`open_uri'
        from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in `open'
        from (irb):6

ruby -v 
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-06-29) [i386-mswin32]