Yes, you have the gist of what I am saying. I want to expand what Web-FTP does to include other transports, and it seemed the best way to do this would be to write an interface module and release it, that way my code becomes much more useful, and maybe other people will write interfaces for it so I don't have to ;) I actually need a rather full set of features... login, listing, download, upload, various stats... basically my goal is to create an interface to Net::FTP and SSH (either through one of the SSH modules or with expect) that both work like Net::FTP (I think). I already have a vague idea on how to make the ssh work... later I would probably add a way to transfer from an mysql database, rsh, maybe others. I don't doubt that this will take some time, but I don't think doing the SSH and FTP ones should take forever... especially since the FTP one should almost just do a pass-thru to Net::FTP.

Looking at the two modules you pointed to don't seem to do exactly what I want, but the LWP stuff does look like a great place to start, thanks a lot.

I fixed the link to freshmeat, I never noticed that they changed the way they index their site... should have thought of it when they redesigned...

Thanks again

                - Ant