[Qt-interest] qt sockets vs native sockets and libssh2

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 01/11/2011 02:43 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 11.01.11 14:05:50, Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> On 01/11/2011 12:51 PM, Dmitry Teslenko wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> I'm trying to get ssh port forwarding with libssh2 and qt4 gui on win32
>>> platform.
>>> SSH library provides usable example with native sockets and I have
>>> problem adapt that code for qt sockets.
>>> libssh2 works fine with native sockets work and stucks on data transfer
>>> with qt sockets. I guess there's some kind of restriction in libssh2 or
>>> in qt that I dont' aware of and I need your help.
>>
>> Why don't you don't simply fork a SSH process (using QProcess) that do
>> the port forwarding for you?
>
> Because then he cannot supply a password or passphrasse to ssh unless his
> application is always run from a terminal. And even then its very strange
> for a GUI app to ask for password/passphrase on the terminal it was started
> from. Hence libssh2 usage which has a hook to provide a custom way to ask
> the user for this information.

Good point! Next time, I'll think twice before sending! ;)

Chris


>
> Andreas
>


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