Commons VFS and Java.net.URL - Adding support for “sftp://” protocol

Question

We\'re trying to use Apache Commons VFS to access something over SFTP. It claims to support SFTP, however we\'re getting a MalformedURLException when it starts. Digging arou

Answer 1

I've never used VFS before, but it looks like you'd need to (at least) register an SFTP FileProvider. It looks like it requires something like:

DefaultFileSystemManager fsm = ... /* Create and configure your FSM. */
fsm.addProvider("sftp", new SftpFileProvider());

There is probably a way to do the same thing through configuration file syntax.