Classic ASP
SFTP Read Text File to String

Demonstrates how to download a text file from an SSH server directly into a string variable.
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success = 0

'  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set sftp = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SFtp")

'  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
sftp.ConnectTimeoutMs = 5000
sftp.IdleTimeoutMs = 15000

'  Connect to the SSH server.  
'  The standard SSH port = 22
'  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.
hostname = "sftp.example.com"
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
'  both password-based authenication as well as public-key
'  authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Open a file on the server:

handle = sftp.OpenFile("hamlet.xml","readOnly","openExisting")
If (sftp.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Get the total size of this file (in bytes)
bFollowLinks = 0
bIsHandle = 1

'  bFollowLinks is ignored because we are passing a handle
'  and not a remote filename.
'  There are alternative methods for handling file sizes
'  greater than 32-bit.  (See the reference documentation.)
numBytes = sftp.GetFileSize32(handle,bFollowLinks,bIsHandle)
If (numBytes < 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  The charset indicates the character encoding of the text
'  file on the SSH server.   Setting the charset correctly
'  allows the Chilkat SFTP component to correctly interpret
'  the bytes that represent the characters.

charset = "ansi"

fileContents = sftp.ReadFileText(handle,numBytes,charset)
If (sftp.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Received file:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( fileContents) & "</pre>"
End If

'  Close the file.
success = sftp.CloseHandle(handle)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

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