SSH.OpenChannel

Method signatures

 Protected Function OpenChannel(Session As SSH.Session, Type As String = "session", Message As String = "") As SSH.Channel
 Protected Function OpenChannel(URL As String, KnownHostList As FolderItem = Nil, AddHost As Boolean = False) As SSH.Channel

OpenChannel(SSH.Session, String, String)

Name	Type	Comment
Session	SSH.Session	The active session to open a channel through.
Type	String	Optional. The SSH subsystem that the channel will be used for.
Message	String	Optional. The subsystem-defined message to send.

OpenChannel(String, FolderItem, Boolean)

Name	Type	Comment
URL	String	A fully qualified URL to open as an SSH channel.
KnownHostList	FolderItem	Optional. A list of known hosts to check the server against.
AddHost	Boolean	Optional. Whether to add the server to the list of known hosts.

Return value

On success returns an instance of SSH.Channel. On error either returns Nil or raises an exception (see remarks.)

Remarks

This convenience method opens a generic SSH channel to the remote server.

Error handling

OpenChannel(SSH.Session, String, String)

If an error occurs while opening the channel then the return value will be Nil and the error details are stored in the Session parameter (Session.LastError, etc.)

OpenChannel(String, FolderItem, Boolean)

In an error occurs while establishing a new session and opening the channel then an SSHException will be raised.

Example

This example starts a command ("uptime") on the remote machine and reads from its StdOut stream:

  Dim sh As SSH.Channel = SSH.OpenChannel("ssh://user:[email protected]/")
  Call sh.Execute("uptime")
  Dim result As String
  Do Until sh.EOF
    If sh.PollReadable() Then
      result = result + sh.Read(sh.BytesReadable, 0)
    End If
  Loop
  sh.Close

See also

• Channel.Open method