On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:07:38 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > See above. Yes, ssh is not portable enough.
Where is the gap? I have OpenSSH on every Unix platform I use and, with cygwin's help, all the windows based systems too. I can even log *into* a w98 host with ssh. Now I do agree the HTTP protocol is worth using for managing the flow of data. I run HTTP over ssh myself. (I modified HTTP::Daemon to use two unidirectional pipes instead of a single, bidirectional socket.) The twist is each remote HTTP 'server' is started on-demand and is dedicated to the task at hand. The how/when start-up problem is eliminated. One major advantage is it works equally well to create local or remote servers. Another advantage is security. By using ssh forced commands, I have both authentication and authorization covered. With HTTPS you only get authentication. Scott