I'm a bit surprised I haven't found a good open source library for performing common network tasks. There are a few very good commercial libraries, but they're too expensive to use on an open source project.
Anyone know of any?
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IIRC, FTP is built in to .NET, (System.Net.FtpWebRequest) and last time I looked (a couple of years ago, admittedly) I couldn't find any free SSH / SFTP assemblies. That might have changed, though.
ZombieSheep
2008-09-30 14:20:14
FtpWebRequest has some limits/issues for non-standard ftp servers - like those used by certain large nameless banks for ACH uploads. If the ftp server provides a single unexpeced response, it just throws and exception and dies and you can't get around it.
Steven A. Lowe
2008-09-30 15:00:13
The FtpWebRequest class is only for the request, though. It doesnt do anything to facilitate file transfer or connection management. I would not consider it a fully functional library for FTP.
Kilhoffer
2008-09-30 17:47:36
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- All-singing-all-dancing solution which looks good to me, but which I haven't tried: http://www.nsoftware.com/products/component/sftp.aspx
- SSH / SFTP library which my company uses: http://www.eldos.com/sbb/net-sftp.php
In practice, the only place where I currently do SFTP, I use putty's bundled psftp utility, and run it from a process object. That may not be great, but it's working reliably for me.
AJ
2008-09-30 14:37:43
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Although it hasn't been updated in a while, it is free! I remember being able to get SharpSSH to run without much hassle, and it supports port forwarding (which is what I was looking for at the time!).
SharpSSH http://www.tamirgal.com/home/dev.aspx?Item=SharpSsh
R4Y
2008-09-30 14:40:37
It claims to support publickey authentication but I could never get that part to work. The other basic SSH features worked fine though.
Mark Biek
2008-09-30 14:50:46
Public key authentication works fine for me, but there are many (MANY) bugs in other areas...
Thomas Levesque
2009-06-03 09:17:54
Someone has been working on this at CodePlex ( http://sharpssh2.codeplex.com/ ) I haven't really used it though. Still trying to find a better solution.
Luke
2009-07-29 10:35:07
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It's not a single library, and I'm not sure how good they are but I was able to find a couple of links to open source libraries here:
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/network-clients
Hope this helps! Jeff
Jeff
2008-09-30 14:42:53
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Lumisoft is open source and has FTP, DNS, IMAP, POP3 clients, among other stuff. It doesn't include SSH and SFTP though.
Mauricio Scheffer
2008-09-30 14:44:48