QUrl: Protocol "sftp" is unknown

[lagarkane]

Hi there,

I am trying to LIST my sftp server, but I've got a problem when sending my request:
if I print my QNetworkReply::errorString(), this is what I get:
Protocol "sftp" is unknown

This is what my QUrl looks like:
sftp://username:password@host:22

username/password is ok, the host and port are the one required for my server, so I don't know what's going on...
I tried with different schemes (http, https, ftp, sftp...) and it looks like only http and https is recognised...

Any Ideas?

[sierdzio]

Qt4 or 5? There were changes to QUrl made for Qt5 that fixed a lot of issues.

[lagarkane]

I am currently using Qt5.0.2 on Linux.

[JKSH]

I'm not sure about SFTP, but QNetworkAccessManager should handle FTP.

Can you show us your code for creating and sending the request?

[tobias.hunger]

SFTP is not FTP-over-SSL but something implemented by SSH. I would be very surprised if that was supported by QNetworkAccessManager.

[lagarkane]

This is the code to send the request:

@ m_sData.clear();

QUrl url;
url.setScheme("sftp");
url.setUserName(m_sUsername);
url.setPassword(m_sPasswd);
url.setHost(m_sHost);
url.setPort(m_iPort);
url.setPath(path);


QString verb = "LIST";
QNetworkRequest* req = new QNetworkRequest(url);
req->setAttribute(QNetworkRequest::CustomVerbAttribute, verb.toUtf8());
m_pReply = m_pNet->sendCustomRequest(*req, "LIST");

connect(m_pReply, SIGNAL(readyRead()),
    this, SLOT(httpReadyRead()));
connect(m_pReply, SIGNAL(finished()),
   this, SLOT(httpFinished()));@

Hope it can help. As I said, I tried with ftp, and it doesn't work either.
Actually, I need an sftp connection in this project case, so if, as you say, SFTP is not implemented, I should look for another library as a replacement.
My project already includes OpenSSH libraries for some other issues, so I should be able to develop an sftp connection with it, maybe.

[JKSH]

The "documentation for sendCustomRequest()":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtnetwork/qnetworkaccessmanager.html#sendCustomRequest says, "This feature is currently available for HTTP/HTTPS only."

Anyway, it looks like SFTP is not supported. Here's a feature request for it, which hasn't been implemented: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-8491

Your best bet is to use OpenSSH then, I guess