FAQ: How to SFTP from my user's home directory?

Updated: January 29, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

Updated: March 7, 2011 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

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  3.17 How do I list the root dir of an FTP server?

  3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?

  3.19 How do I get HTTP from a host using a specific IP address?

  3.20 How to SFTP from my user's home directory?

 4. Running Problems

  4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.

    curl --header "Host: www.example.com" http://127.0.0.1/

  3.20 How to SFTP from my user's home directory?

  Contrary to how FTP works, SFTP and SCP URLs specify the exact directory to

  work with. It means that if you don't specify that you want the user's home

  directory, you get the actual root directory.

  To specify a file in your user's home directory, you need to use the correct

  URL syntax which for sftp might look similar to:

    curl -O -u user:password sftp://example.com/~/file.txt

  and for SCP it is just a different protocol prefix:

    curl -O -u user:password scp://example.com/~/file.txt

4. Running Problems