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

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Djalaliev
On Mar 1, 1:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 >

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-03-01 Thread timeless
On Feb 28, 3:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Timeless: Is this what you mean? I write JS code for the GUI bit. So I > have a box with a username and password prompt and a "GO" button. So > now JS has no Sftp(SSH) support so it has to get it from somewhere > else. > > Now I write C++ code using th

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-03-01 Thread timeless
On Mar 1, 8:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The next thing now is to make Mozilla somehow understand that it has > to just try and call this C++ code. No SFTP functionality will be > written here. As soon as the user enters "username" and "password" and > hits "GO" the entire C++ code is called a

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 Peter Djalaliev
Here are my doubts about the easiness of this: Let's say you use the FTP implementation in Firefox (I assume you want to do this). When the you attempt to initiate a FTP connection, Firefox's FTP code will attempt toe establish a socket connection using the socket objects provided by Mozilla/NSP

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

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-27 Thread Justin Dolske
Peter Djalaliev wrote: Has Secure FTP been standardized? I can't seem to find any sort of an RFC or another standard to do with Secure FTP. I believe was standardized under the umbrella of the IETF's SecSH WG... A (recently) expired draft is at the below URL, but I don't know the current sta

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-26 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
Peter Djalaliev wrote: Has Secure FTP been standardized? I can't seem to find any sort of an RFC or another standard to do with Secure FTP. Is the sFTP you are talking about more than just FTP over an SSL connection? I believe it is FTP over an SSH (as opposed to SSL) connection. Wan-Teh ___

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Djalaliev
Has Secure FTP been standardized? I can't seem to find any sort of an RFC or another standard to do with Secure FTP. Is the sFTP you are talking about more than just FTP over an SSL connection? If it is not, then it might not be too hard to implement this secure FTP through an extension. If sFTP

Re: Sftp extension for Firefox

2007-02-26 Thread timeless
On Feb 24, 7:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 "How to write extensions". My > question th

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 "