The Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) provides a method to transfer files. It supports both uploading and downloading files.
libssh makes using SCP easy. This chapter's code repository contains an example, ssh_download.c, which shows the basic method for downloading a file over SCP with libssh.
After the SSH session is started and the user is authenticated, ssh_download.c prompts the user for the remote filename using the following code:
/*ssh_download.c excerpt*/ printf("Remote file to download: "); char filename[128]; fgets(filename, sizeof(filename), stdin); filename[strlen(filename)-1] = 0;
A new SCP session is initialized by calling the libssh library function ssh_scp_new(), as shown in the following code:
/*ssh_download.c ...
