Re^4: Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs

I concur, Salva, that this is the approach I need to take. I'm more inclined to use Net::OpenSSH as it seems the most portable (and, as was pointed out by Krambambuli below, all the other modules are wrappers to one degree or another for external binaries). In my response below I distilled the issue down to "How do you make DBI connect with DBD::mysql over Net::OpenSSH tunnels ?" and I suppose that's the crux of the challenge.

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Re^5: Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs by salva (Canon) on Apr 12, 2013 at 21:16 UTC
Net::OpenSSH does not work on Windows. If you just want to run a tunnel, you could use the native `ssh` client from your OS on Unix and on Windows use PuTTY's `plink` which could be distributed with your module. IIRC, it doesn't have any dependency.	[reply] [d/l] [select]