web sftp interface

Anyone tried to create a sftp web interface. I know there are several free ones available for ftp, but I need one for SFTP that uses the ssh encryption. I also know there are perl modules to handle ssh, but I can't seem to find documentation on how to use them.

I am normaly very good with perl, but these modules seem to be escaping my capcity to grasp the concept. Does anyone have some code to reference or know where I might be able to find a working web based sftp example? I need to create an interface for a website to allow secure uploads not with ssl!

Check http://search.cpan.org for File::Remote, it may be of use (and it has an included POD).

Really, most web-interfaces use CGI uploads, not any kind of direct FTP-like transfer. I suppose you could make the cgi connection via ssl and it'd be somewhat secure.

What I need to design needs to be a web frontend over a secure ssl http session where the backend is an sftp server.


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External FireWall Internal
Web server with ssl ---------------------------------> SFTP Server

Well, you can't make an [S]FTP client via the web, that would involve opening ports and initiating connections on the client's computer, something a server-side language cannot do.

If you're talking about having a web interface to upload a file via CGI and then SFTP that file to another server once it makes it to the web server, then I'd try File::Remote. It's not SFTP, it's SCP, but I'd bet if a server supports the former, it'll support the latter.

Actually, upon just looking now, of course there's an SFTP module, if you want to use that: http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Net...lib/Net/SFTP.pm