Hi Monks

I am trying to use Net::SFTP to send a file from one server to another.

The script I have written works fine when called from the command line, but wont work when called from a web browser.

Originally I got an error and had to create the directory /var/www/.ssh for the apache user. Now I don't get any errors, it just hangs.

I assumed it was to do with permissions, so I tried a couple of things. I added the apache user (temporarily of course) to the root group, but that didn't fix it. So then I gave the apache user shell access (temporarily), su'ed to apache, ran the script and it worked. I can't work out why it won't work when run from a web browser. Code is below:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use Net::SFTP;

  my $upload_dir = "/var/www/vhosts/domainname/httpsdocs/companyname/t
+mpfiles";

  print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
  my $filename = "2007-03-27-0088.PDF";
  my $sftp = undef;
  my %args = (user => 'username', password => 'password', debug => 1);

  eval{$sftp = Net::SFTP->new("domainname", %args);};
  if ($@) {
    print "Error: cannot connect to SFTP server. $@\n";
    exit();
  }

  eval{$sftp->put("$upload_dir/$filename", "temp/$filename");};
  if ($@) {
    print "Error: cannot copy file to the SFTP server\n$@\n";
    exit();
  }

  print "Complete\n";
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The debug output is as follows:

Reading configuration data /.ssh/config
Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
Connecting to domainname, port 22.
Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_4.6
Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.34, protocol version 2.0.
No compat match: OpenSSH_4.6.
Connection established.
Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response.
Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none
Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange.
Sent DH public key, waiting for reply.
Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'.
Host 'domainname' is known and matches the host key.
Computing shared secret key.
Verifying server signature.
Waiting for NEWKEYS message.
Send NEWKEYS.
Enabling encryption/MAC/compression.
Sending request for user-authentication service.
Service accepted: ssh-userauth.
Trying empty user-authentication request.
Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,password.
Next method to try is publickey.
Next method to try is password.
Trying password authentication.
Login completed, opening dummy shell channel.
channel 0: new [client-session]
Requesting channel_open for channel 0.
channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
channel 1: new [client-session]
Requesting channel_open for channel 1.
Sending subsystem: sftp
Requesting service subsystem on channel 1.
channel 1: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
sftp: Sending SSH2_FXP_INIT
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Any help will be greatly appreciated. I found a few people on google who experienced it hanging at the same point as me (sftp: Sending SSH2_FXP_INIT), but no solutions.

Many thanks

James