Question

I’ve looked into the SSH2 module for PHP, but it would require a PHP recompile on a server which is very bloated. It’s far more of a risk than we’d like to take on right now.

Is it possible for me to use cURL to grab a few files over SSH? I’ve done some Googling and found a few sources but nothing 100% clear on whether this is possible.

Answer 1

I’m not certain about cURL, but if you don’t want to recompile but the server has ssh clients installed already, you can make a system call to scp. It will work best, of course, if you have SSH keys in place between the local and remote hosts.

shell_exec("/usr/bin/scp -i private_key_identity user@host:/path/to/remote/file /local/path");