From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-15T11:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.1.0

In my hurry to package and announce the release of Net::SSH 0.1.0, I 
forgot to thank a few people:  Gabriele Renzi (for the suggestion for 
the open-uri interface to sftp), and Daniel Hobe and Jochen Immend�rfer 
(for the feedback and patches).

Thanks a ton!

- Jamis

Jamis Buck wrote:
> Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.
> 
>   PROJECT: http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
>   MANUAL: http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org
>   API: http://net-ssh-rubyforge.org/api
> 
> Version 0.1.0 brings us out of "alpha" status and into "beta". There's 
> still a lot of work to be done, but this new release adds the following 
> significant features:
> 
> * URI support:
> 
>    require 'uri/sftp'
> 
>    uri = URI.parse( "sftp://user:password@" +
>                     "my.host.com" +
>                     "/path/to/some/file" +
>                     "?option=value&option2=value2&..." )
> 
> * open-uri support:
> 
>    require 'uri/open-sftp'
> 
>    io = open( "sftp://host.com/path/to/some/file" )
>    puts io.read.length
> 
>    # ...OR...
> 
>    uri = URI.parse( "sftp://host.com/path/to/some/file" )
>    puts uri.read.length
> 
>   See the 'uri-demo.rb' file in the 'examples' subdirectory, or the SFTP 
> chapter in the user's manual for more details.
> 
> * hostbased authentication: if you have your client and server 
> configured correction (see the documentation for your server for the 
> specifics).
> 
> * proxy support: tunnel your SSH connection through an HTTP, SOCKS4, or 
> SOCKS5 proxy, with the option to easily plug your own implementations in 
> if needed:
> 
>   require 'net/ssh'
>   require 'net/ssh/proxy/http'
> 
>   proxy = Net::SSH::Proxy::HTTP.new( 'my.proxy.com', 8000 )
>   Net::SSH.start( 'host', :proxy => proxy ) do |session|
>     ...
>   end
> 
>   See the chapter on proxies in the user manual for more details.
> 
> * More SFTP protocol coverage (in particular, a file abstraction for 
> manipulating files)
> 
> Several other features and bugs have been taken care of as well--see the 
> ChangeLog for the complete rundown.
> 
> As always, you need to be using either Ruby 1.8.2, or you need to have 
> the patched OpenSSL module installed (which is available from the 
> Net::SSH downloads page).
> 


-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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