Hey there,
firstly thank you to everyone for replying. I went with libcurl for its support of sftp via libssh2 as well as other protocols i want to use. The assumptions for speed etc were made based on other postings here and on other pages of people that have used it as well as other CPAN modules. I did not have time to run a benchmark test though. The wikipedia callback pages explains callbacks rather well and they make sense so thank you to the first anonymous monk for directing me there.

I have another question about using libcurl with sftp, anyone have any experience with it, i don't seem to be able to pass a passphrase with success and wondering what attribute is the right attribute to set for the passphrase and how i should set it. It seems to want me to pass it as a pointer to the password, should i assume it wants me to pass a reference to $password ? Any ideas?

In reply to Re^2: WWW::Curl help by bittis
in thread WWW::Curl help by bittis

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