All,

This has been a big issue in kde3/trinity for a couple of years now. sftp is broken in konqueror. IIRC, this is due to the sftp kioslave. I know we have raised and discussed this issue numerous time and as of 3/23/11, the plan was a complete re-write of the kioslave from scratch. (discussion on opensuse/kde3 list with Robert, Ilya and Serghei)

Does anybody have a quick status on this issue?

Basic Synopsis:

In konqueror if you try:

sftp://hostname/dir

you get the error:

An error occurred while loading sftp://nirvana.3111skyline.com Unknown error Error encountered while talking to ssh.

However, if I open konsole and issue sftp from the command line - no problem:

20:28 valkyrie:~> sftp nirvana Connected to nirvana. sftp>

Here is a screenshot of the konqueror error:

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/sftp-error.jpg

If this is still broken, then I think it needs to be listed as a blocker for R14. sftp is a incredibly secure and useful protocol that konqueror handled flawlessly in the past. Should be working again.

The curious part is that fish continues to work. (i.e.: fish://nirvana/home/david works just fine...)

What say the gurus?

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Raise a bug report to blocker. I never received the promised kioslave (please correct me if I am wrong; if it was sent a spam filter may have eaten it), and the existing one should be fixed for R14.0.

Tim