Re: [Boa Constr] SSHExplorer

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Yuppie,

Yuppie wrote:

> > Please also test and drop me a note if it doesn't work as expected.
> 
> Much better now. The discussed problems are solved!
> 
> But I found some other bugs:
> 
> 1.) Deleting folders doesn't work with 'rm'. What about using 'rm -r' or
> 'rm -rf'?

Added -rf, thanks.

> 
> 2.) Opening files doesn't work:
> Explorers.ExplorerNodes.TransportError: Catalog transport could not be
> found: label~ || folder/test.txt

Opening files works for me.

From the error message it was trying to open folder/test.txt from
a SSHConnection named "label~". I doubt you actually had a 
SSHConnection named like that so the URL splitting logic is somehow
not handling your path.

Please mail me (directly) your connection info (from Explorer.msw.cfg).
Remove sensitive info.

Also note something I failed to mention before; you may now safely 
remove the scp_pass property from any SSHConnection definition
in Explorer.msw.cfg.

As a workaround for now, use A simple alpha-numeric connection 
name and avoid ~ (I don't know why it would break anything, but
"label~" seems to indicate it as a possible culprit)

> 
> 3.) scp from one remote host to another doesn't work.

You mean when you copy/paste from one SSHConnection to another?

That's not supported no.

scp does not seem to support copying from one remote server to another.

If you are interested:

SSHExplorer.SSHExpClipboard.clipPaste_SSHExpClipboard

must:
* Check if the pasted node is from a different SSHConnection
* SCP it to a local temp file
* SCP the temp file to the second remote server.

I've no plans to do this soon.

> 4.) The irix host returns folder names with trailing slash. The explorer
> shows "./", "../", "folder/" and the paths contain "//". I don't know
> how many unix platforms do this, but filtering out trailing slashs would
> be nice.

I've added this. (untested, please test)

Both fixes checked into CVS.

> Connecting and authenticating seems to be an expensive process: About 30
> seconds on my accounts. So browsing doesn't make much fun. Whould it be
> possible to keep the ssh connections alive? Perhaps in a future release?

Can't see how to do that without a rewrite and much pain. (With Rasjid's 
PySSH, maybe not too much pain :)

Patches welcome ;)

Cheers,
Riaan.