Re: Server API: How to communicate connection failures to client

[g4-lisz@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 21.02.19 19:32, Stef Bon wrote:

> Hi,
> I've written my own ssh client, and a sftp server.
>
> The client can connect to the sftp server via a socket (using
> direct-streamlocal@xxxxxxxxxxx).Now my client get's a
> SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN_FAILURE msg when the sftp server is not running
> (and thus the local socket is not there)and a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_EOF when
> the sftp server is normally running as it should, the connection is
> made and then is terminated or crashes.You use direct-tcpip, but this
> is handled the same.
> Stef

Hi Stef and thanks for your answer!

Sending this message is also my conclusion after reading the RFC,
although it's not really clear there IMHO.

How did you manage to send SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN_FAILURE using libssh? Or
you wrote your server on your own from scratch?

Cheers,
Till