Hello, I have been tasked with a project that requires me to utilize a PERL script to login to an SFTP server to retrieve files. When using standard FTP, this works perfect but this requires SFTP and there-in lies my problem. I turned on debugging mode and here is the result from trying to execute:

# queueing msg len: 5, code:1, id:3 ... [1]
00 00 00 05 01 00 00 00 03                                            
+                          | .........
# waiting for message... [1]
connection failed: bad remote message received
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I read everything I could find on here pertaining to this problem but can't find what I'm looking for so any help is appreciated! Below is the code I am trying to run:

use Net::SFTP::Foreign ;

$Net::SFTP::Foreign::debug = 25;

sub mget {

 my($mysftp) = shift;
 my($filename) = shift;
 my($remote_path) = shift ;
 my($local_path) = shift ;


my $ls = $mysftp->ls();

chop $filename;

foreach $ls (@$ls) {
  if ($ls->{filename} =~ m/$filename/) {
    $mysftp->get($ls->{filename}, $local_path . $ls->{filename}) or wa
+rn $mysftp->error;

  }
}
}

my($sftp) ;           # sftp object variable
my($myhost) ;         # hostname to connect to 
my($myuser) ;
my($mypass) ; 
my($myremotedir) ; 
my($mylocaldir) ;
my($myfilename) ;
my($parameterfile) ;

if ($#ARGV != 0)
 {  die "usage: $ARGV[-1] <parameter filename>\n    $ARGV[0] --help   
+ for parameter file layout\n"; }

if ($ARGV[0] eq "--help")
 { printf "usage: $ARGV[-1] <parameter filename>\n" ;
   printf "    parameter file layout:\n" ;
   printf "<host>\n" ;
   printf "<login>\n" ;
   printf "<password>\n" ;
   printf "<remote_path>\n" ;
   printf "<local_path>\n" ;
   printf "<filename/mask>\n\n" ;
   exit() ;
 } 

$parameterfile = $ARGV[0] ;

open (PARMFILE, $parameterfile) || die "couldn't open parameter file $
+parameterfile!\n" ;
 
$myhost = <PARMFILE> ;
$myuser = <PARMFILE> ;
$mypass = <PARMFILE> ;
$myremotedir = <PARMFILE> ;
$mylocaldir = <PARMFILE> ;
$myfilename = <PARMFILE> ;

close(PARMFILE) ;

chomp($myhost);
chomp($myuser);
chomp($mypass);
chomp($myremotedir);
chomp($mylocaldir);
chomp($myfilename);

if (substr($mylocaldir, -1) ne "/") { $mylocaldir .= "/" ; }

$sftp = Net::SFTP::Foreign->new($myhost, user => $myuser, password => 
+$mypass, more => '-v' );
$sftp->error and die "connection failed: " . $sftp->error();
print "sftp-status = " . $sftp->status();

mget($sftp,$myfilename,$myremotedir,$mylocaldir) ;
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