DownloadFromRemote does not seem to work

[cdoern]

Hello, trying to copy a .tar archive from my remote client and I consistently get Error: timeout when download files any idea what causes this error? Any feedback or changes would be appreciated

[bramvdbogaerde]

Can you give me a bit more information about how you are trying to use the library?

• What authentication method do you use?
• Which function did you use for copying the files from the remote (there are a couple with varying degrees of flexibility)
• How large is the file you are trying to copy?
• Does the name of the file contain any special characters or spaces?

I know it is not always possible to provide a file, but it would be very useful to me to get an example file so that I can try to reproduce the bug locally.

Thanks for reporting!

[levwz]

Hello, trying to copy a .tar archive from my remote client and I consistently get Error: timeout when download files any idea what causes this error? Any feedback or changes would be appreciated

Please try set a long and reasonable Timeout after scp client created, this solved my issue.
client.Timeout=36000000000000

[bramvdbogaerde]

I think there are two possible ways to resolve this issue (in terms of improvements of the library):

• Disable the timeout by default and make it so that it needs to be explicitly enabled
• Increase the the default timeout to something more than a single minute since larger files tend to take more than a minute to be transfered

However, in my opinion the current implementation of the timeout is rather flawed. I would expect that a timeout is only triggered when the client has waited for a long period of time without receiving any data. In the current implementation, the timeout is simply a timer that expires after one minute in which case the error is thrown.

Thoughts?

[bramvdbogaerde]

Closing in favor of #47 .