Post by @bagder@mastodon.social

So tell me. Do you think #curl should support plain SSH:// URLs to execute commands remotely?

vssh: add ssh:// scheme for remote command execution by RekGRpth · Pull Request #22661 · curl/curl

Add a new ssh:// scheme that opens a channel over an existing SSH connection and executes a remote command, implemented for both the libssh and libssh2 backends. The command comes from CURLOPT_CUST...

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char

@char@ioc.exchange 2 hr. ago

@bagder IMHO no; we have ssh already for that.

Edvin Malinovskis

@nCrazed@fd00.space 2 hr. ago

@bagder throw in a TUI and vim bindings while you're at it /s

daniel:// stenberg://

@bagder@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

and kids, don't forget that curl is even more a library than a command line tool...

Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@jschwart@mas.to 1 hr. ago

@bagder this could be practical in a similar way to KDE's fish protocol. One could use cat or dd in case the server side lacks support for SCP or SFTP.

But generally it's really up to what people enjoy doing with the tool. I can write scripts that use wget and ssh just the same, so in this case it would really be the library use case where curl would stand out. In some cases this might really help to interact with embedded devices as which run a version of Dropbear without SCP and SFTP support.