Resolving a remote $HOME directory via FTP/SFTP.

Question

In Objective-C, NSString has a method called

stringByExpandingTildeInPath

This method will take a string like "~/Documents" and resolve it to "/Users/Nick/Documents". The "~" tilde is resolved to the home directory of the current user of the machine the program is running on.

Now my question is this... I am writing a little FTP/SFTP utility using Cocoa and Objective-C. How could I resolve a tilde (~) path on remote machine via FTP/SFTP?

For example. A user wants to upload a file to

sftp://remote-host.com:~/

If remote-host.com is a Linux or OSX server, then this path is totally valid. However uploading a file only works when I specify the absolute path. I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the framework I'm using, ConnectionKit, or if this is something that I need to manually implement. I'm ok with the latter but, any suggestions on how?

Answer 1

You could try just removing the "~/" (and use the rest as a relative path) - generally the server should put you in the user's home directory by default when you connect.