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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 62404

Is it possible to use cURL to grab files via SSH?

I've looked into the SSH2 module for PHP, but it would require a PHP recompile on a server which is very bloated. It's far more of a risk than we'd like to take on right now.

Is it possible for me to use cURL to grab a few files over SSH? I've done some Googling and found a few sources but nothing 100% clear on whether this is possible.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2688

Answers (2)

konsolenfreddy
konsolenfreddy

Reputation: 9671

CURL won't work unfortunately. You can, as @Michael suggested, use scp, or if you need to copy the files on a regular basis, I would suggest rsync as it will only transfer the differences between the file content. 

exec('/usr/bin/rsync -az user@remotehost:/path/to/directory/* /path/to/local/directory/');

Flag-a will use archive mode, see the documentation for more details. The -z flag will compress the transfer.

rsync will also transfer via SSH, so make sure you have the privat/public keys set up correctly.

Upvotes: 1

Michael Berkowski
Michael Berkowski

Reputation: 270637

I'm not certain about cURL, but if you don't want to recompile but the server has ssh clients installed already, you can make a system call to scp. It will work best, of course, if you have SSH keys in place between the local and remote hosts.

shell_exec("/usr/bin/scp -i private_key_identity user@host:/path/to/remote/file /local/path");

Upvotes: 2

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