Compression zlib can not be set

[ghost]

Setting zlib compression client <-> server and vice versa does not work.

Try this snippet:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::SSH2; #

my $server   = 'myserver.org'; #change to your own server for your needs!
my $user     = 'meomy';
my $password = 'ThIsIsYuRpaZZwurd';

my $ssh2     = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh2->connect($server, 22) or die $!;

$ssh2->auth_password($user,$password);

$ssh2->method('COMP_CS', 'zlib');
print "COMP_CS is ", $ssh2->method('COMP_CS');
$ssh2->method('COMP_SC', 'zlib');
print "COMP_SC is ", $ssh2->method('COMP_SC');
$ssh2->disconnect();

ssh2->method('COMP_CS') and ssh2->method('COMP_SC') always shows none

Tested with Debian 6.06 / libssh2 1.4.2-1.1 / openssh 6.0p1-3

[lsiden]

I'm having this same problem. Please let me know if you found a solution.

[salva]

zlib compression is broken on the current stable version of libssh2. Fixed in dev.

[jamessan]

libssh2 with compression fixes has been released and the net-ssh2 changes to support the compression API have been merged. The compression support can be enabled as below

my $ssh = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh->connect($host, $port, Compress => 1);