New SFTP plugin available now

[ghisler(Author)]

SFTP-Plugin version 0.94 has just been released!

It now supports Unicode file names, and different server encodings just like built-in ftp. It still works also on Win9x and with older versions of Total Commander.

See the first post of this thread for the download addresses.

[andres992]

I am having a problem with 0.9.4 beta, using TC 7.04a.

I have a large file (82 MB) and I want to upload it through SFTP. When uploading the file, CPU goes 90-100 and everything else besides TC becomes incredibly slow.

When I tested the same situation with 0.9.1 beta, this problem did not occur.

[Lefteous]

CPU goes 90-100 and everything else besides TC becomes incredibly slow

That means you are using an operating system which isn't capable of properly assigning CPU resources.

[X-Byte]

Are you using the same file in your tests? Maybe it is an archive and some virus scanner goes mad as it tries to scan the archive contents? I had this situation with McAfee occassionally in the company.

[andres992]

I am using XP SP2. And when I tested with 0.9.1 beta, I tested it with the same OS without any problem.

I did the tests with one and the same file, no antivirus running at all, neither on my system nor on the server.

[Mikefield]

Hmm, the sftpplug094beta is near desgned for the new 7.5 version of TC (unicode).
At this time the public beta test is running. Did you tried this also with the new beta of TC?

mf

[andres992]

No, I did not. Anyhow, I think that this need not be connected with the new TC version, and the plugin should also work with TC 7.0 even when TC 7.5 is out.

[ghisler(Author)]

I can reproduce the high CPU load when using SFTP mode transfers, but not when using SCP transfers, so please try using SCP if you can. It seems to be a problem with OpenSSH library in nonblocking mode. I will try to find a workaround.

[franck8244]

Is there away to -hide- "F7=New Connection" and "Quick Connect" entries?

[mag]

Hello again,

thanks for the new version 0.94 which resolves the empty password issue in TC 7.5, nice job

Just one question - any progress regarding the already reported issue special characters in filenames?
In particular '$' causes some troubles and even more interesting is '&' which is able to completely freeze the TC.

I did few quick tests against the Linux and HP-UX servers and it always does the same so it seems to be a generic issue related to special meaning of these characters which then need to be escaped in order to be processed as just regular ones.

I also noticed that the issue occurs in SCP copy mode only, in SFTP mode it works fine.

Tested with TC 7.04a and plugin 0.94 with default plugin settings. I only switched between the SCP and SFTP copy modes.

[ghisler(Author)]

2franck8244
No, unfortunately not, only by changing the code yourself.

2mag
I'm not sure what to do, it may change with one of the next releases of the openssl dlls. The SCP copy functions seem to be quite faulty. For example, they also fail to work with Unicode names (downloads only, uploads work fine). I think that it's quite hopeless to try to report this as a bug to the developpers. They know about the non-working non-blocking mode for years without fixing it.

[Mikefield]

No, unfortunately not, only by changing the code yourself.

I tried to hide these with the ignorlist, but it's ignored (the entry in the ignorlist).
Is it possible to enable it for Plugins?

mf

[DrShark]

I tried to hide these with the ignorlist, but it's ignored (the entry in the ignorlist).
Is it possible to enable it for Plugins?

Support!

[ghisler(Author)]

The ignore list is currently meant for the file system only. It's described like this in the help too. It would be dangerous to change that now where many people may have defined ignore lists. The only way would be to support a special ignore list item format for plugins...

[DrShark]

The only way would be to support a special ignore list item format for plugins...

Why not an option in wincmd.ini to extend current ignore list to FS-plugins and virtual folders?