Re: Returning data from ssh_channel_read()

["Paulo R. Panhoto" <paulo.panhoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

ssh_channel_read() should return plain text. I use it run a bash session 
and I get the same output as a console.

have you run the sample?
http://api.libssh.org/master/libssh_tutor_forwarding.html

On 08/05/12 12:37, Burak Alkan wrote:
> Hello Paulo,
>
> What I want to do is access my squid instance running on port 3128 with the same server
> my opensshd to use it as a proxy server. Now I can accomplish this using something like this on command line;
>
> ssh -L 3128:localhost:3128 -fN  username@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> This way ssh is connecting my browser(local) and my squid proxy server(remote) using a secure tunnel.
>
> What I want to do is exactly the same without running any system commands or ssh client, so that I will
> be able to diagnose any problems with the tunneling or connection. Using libssh, I was able to send requests
> to squid over a channel, but somehow firefox unable to understand the answer(encoding error it says).
> Am I doing wrong something during the data transmission?How can I control the data access between these 2?
>
> Regards
>
> On 08.May.2012, at 18:18, Paulo R. Panhoto wrote:
>
> > Forgive my limited experience, but I've never seen HTTP over SSH before. Are you sure you didn't want SSL /TLS?
> >
> > On 08/05/12 11:19, Burak Alkan wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > In my application I opened and forwarded a channel and then sent an http request to other side of the
> > > channel (squid).As an answer I read some data with ssh_channel_read(), my question is when I read from ssh_channel_read(),
> > > what kind of data is that?
> > > Is it encrypted or just compressed? Do I need to decrypt data coming out of the ssh_channel_read or
> > > sister functions before using it?
> > >
> > > Cheers