[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] help needed with SFTP

[Howard, C. <Ho...@pr...>]

Hello,

I am attemping to write a simple perl script to upload
a file to a remote site using sftp.  I am used to Net::FTP
so my script follows along similar lines.  I think that lack
of sophistication is probably a large part of my problem!

Problem #1:  running a small test script with debug turned on I see that
my login sequence gets held up for quite awhile before finally saying
"Entering Diffie-Hullman Group 1 key exchange".  Then it moves along and
gets me logged in with my username and password.  Is there any way to
avoid the long delay?

Problem #2:  I need to change directory on the remote machine and then
upload my file.  I cannot find any "cd" type of command.  I have
attempted to use the full pathname in the "put", but that also seems to
not be working as I expect.

Does anyone have a simple example of logging in with a name and
password, navigating to a directory, uploading/downloading a file?

Chris