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24 /* <DESC>
25  * Gets a file using an SFTP URL.
26  * </DESC>
27  */
28 
29 #include <stdio.h>
30 
31 #include <curl/curl.h>
32 
33 /* define this to switch off the use of ssh-agent in this program */
34 #undef DISABLE_SSH_AGENT
35 
36 /*
37  * This is an example showing how to get a single file from an SFTP server. It
38  * delays the actual destination file creation until the first write callback
39  * so that it does not create an empty file in case the remote file does not
40  * exist or something else fails.
41  */
42 
43 struct FtpFile {
44   const char *filename;
45   FILE *stream;
46 };
47 
my_fwrite(void * buffer,size_t size,size_t nmemb,void * stream)48 static size_t my_fwrite(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb,
49                         void *stream)
50 {
51   struct FtpFile *out = (struct FtpFile *)stream;
52   if(!out->stream) {
53     /* open file for writing */
54     out->stream = fopen(out->filename, "wb");
55     if(!out->stream)
56       return 0; /* failure, cannot open file to write */
57   }
58   return fwrite(buffer, size, nmemb, out->stream);
59 }
60 
61 
main(void)62 int main(void)
63 {
64   CURL *curl;
65   CURLcode res;
66   struct FtpFile ftpfile = {
67     "yourfile.bin", /* name to store the file as if successful */
68     NULL
69   };
70 
71   curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
72 
73   curl = curl_easy_init();
74   if(curl) {
75     /*
76      * You better replace the URL with one that works!
77      */
78     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
79                      "sftp://user@server/home/user/file.txt");
80     /* Define our callback to get called when there is data to be written */
81     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, my_fwrite);
82     /* Set a pointer to our struct to pass to the callback */
83     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &ftpfile);
84 
85 #ifndef DISABLE_SSH_AGENT
86     /* We activate ssh agent. For this to work you need
87        to have ssh-agent running (type set | grep SSH_AGENT to check) or
88        pageant on Windows (there is an icon in systray if so) */
89     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES, CURLSSH_AUTH_AGENT);
90 #endif
91 
92     /* Switch on full protocol/debug output */
93     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
94 
95     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
96 
97     /* always cleanup */
98     curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
99 
100     if(CURLE_OK != res) {
101       /* we failed */
102       fprintf(stderr, "curl told us %d\n", res);
103     }
104   }
105 
106   if(ftpfile.stream)
107     fclose(ftpfile.stream); /* close the local file */
108 
109   curl_global_cleanup();
110 
111   return 0;
112 }
113