Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-03-01 Thread arvind . doraiswamy
Thnx Timeless and Peter...thats a lot of information to digest at one go for someone who's writing his first ever Firefox program ;) .I'll repost if needed after going through all your suggestions slowly and in detail. Thnx a bunch and I'll make sure I repost in the other group next time around. C

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-28 Thread arvind . doraiswamy
Thnx Peter. Okay..now lets see if I've understood you. In the normal case when I use FTP through Firefox I use an FTP API which is natively available in Mozilla/Firefox. But Firefox doesn't have an API at all for Sftp..which means that I'll have to write an API for it. So is it ok if I use "sshli

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-28 Thread arvind . doraiswamy
Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes it is indeed Sftp(Ssh) which I'm looking at. Justin: I'm willing to do the work ;) .. just need a few pointers on how to proceed. Peter:Yes thats all I found as well...didnt look like a proper RFC.You know, like the other ones.Still that'll have to do :). Ti

Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-23 Thread arvind . doraiswamy
Hey Guys, I posted this query on the dev-extensions group and they suggested I post it here. Am brand new to writing extensions for Firefox. I was looking at FireFTP and it looked like it didnt have support for Sftp. So I thought I would try and write one. I did go through quite a few pages on "