So I want to connect to a SFTP server using a ppk file that is provided to me. I am able to establish the SFTP connection to this server using a client like FileZilla and using an utility like Pageant ( to upload the PPK file ). However I am not able to achieve this task of connecting to the server via Perl. Please find my code snippet below which I am using to establish the connection

use Net::SFTP;
use Net::SSH::Perl::Auth;

#!/usr/bin/perl 

$ENV{HOME} = "C:\\Perl\\myscripts\\etc";

my $host = 'test.secure01.batch.netgiro.com';
my %args = (
user => 'vistaprint_test',
ssh_args => { identity_files => ["/home/ssh/id_rsa"], 
protocol=>'2,1',
debug=>'true'} );

my $sftp = Net::SFTP->new($host, %args);
print "connected!";
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-------------------------------- SO for my ssh_args hash above, I am not sure what value should I include for the key 'Identity_files' I tried to point it to the PPK file which I have with me...but it did not help at all.... I get the following output

DEVPPAWAR: Reading configuration data C:\Perl\myscripts\etc/.ssh/confi
+g
DEVPPAWAR: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
DEVPPAWAR: Connecting to test.secure01.batch.netgiro.com, port 22.
DEVPPAWAR: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSS
+H_4.3
DEVPPAWAR: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.34, protocol version 2.0.
DEVPPAWAR: No compat match: OpenSSH_4.3.
DEVPPAWAR: Connection established.
DEVPPAWAR: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response.
DEVPPAWAR: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
DEVPPAWAR: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
DEVPPAWAR: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange.
DEVPPAWAR: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply.
DEVPPAWAR: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'.
DEVPPAWAR: Host 'test.secure01.batch.netgiro.com' is known and matches
+ the host
key.
DEVPPAWAR: Computing shared secret key.
DEVPPAWAR: Verifying server signature.
DEVPPAWAR: Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
DEVPPAWAR: Send NEWKEYS.
DEVPPAWAR: Enabling encryption/MAC/compression.
DEVPPAWAR: Sending request for user-authentication service.
DEVPPAWAR: Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
DEVPPAWAR: Trying empty user-authentication request.
DEVPPAWAR: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,gssapi-
+with-mic,p
assword.
DEVPPAWAR: Next method to try is publickey.
DEVPPAWAR: Next method to try is password.
DEVPPAWAR: Trying password authentication.
DEVPPAWAR: Will not query passphrase in batch mode.
DEVPPAWAR: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,gssapi-
+with-mic,password.
.
.
.
DEVPPAWAR: Next method to try is publickey.
DEVPPAWAR: Next method to try is password.
Permission denied at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Net/SFTP.pm line 62
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Any help on this would be highly appreciated....I am on a Windows machine . Please let me know if any more info is needed .... Thanks a lot for the help !!!

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