Each license includes one year of free updates, and unlimited lifetime
technical support. Remember that each developer must have his own
design-time license.
General information
wodSSH is windowless
(SSH client and Telnet client) component that provides support
for communication with remote console-type services. The SSH transport layer is a secure, low level transport
protocol which provides strong encryption, cryptographic host
authentication and integrity protection. Most
commonly wodSSH will be used for Telnet based servers (running on
UNIX OS), but wodSSH does even more: it allows you to
carry out encrypted (and therefore secured) communication with SSH1 and
SSH2 (secure-shell) servers, as well as any other non-encrypted
server (such as SMTP or POP3).
Features include:
- support for both SSH1 and SSH2 protocols
- support for Telnet protocol, with negotiation to telnet options
- windowless, you can use wodSSH in unattended mode
- internal user defined level compression - from 0 (no compression) to 9 (highest compression)
- proxy support
- fast notifications - you can use callback methods instead of slow events
- blocking support (for scripting environments) and asynchronous (state
driven) model
- Prompt event - fired when a command prompt is found in received data
- WaitFor and Execute methods - approach similar to UNIX "expect" command
- Password and PrivateKey authentication
- Port forwarding through one channel
Don't use insecure Telnet - use SSH instead
The Telnet protocol is widely used for character-based communication.
Due to its insecurity, most sys admins use SSH protocols instead - they're
transparent for the end-user, but provide a secure layer on which data is
transmitted, so your passwords are not exposed on the internet.
You might want to consider securing your data using the SSL protocol instead (check out
wodTelnetDLX!),
but sometimes SSL brings too many hassles - you need to buy certificates sign them, etc.. SSH doesn't need any of this.
How to use it?
Using wodSSH is easy - just put it on your form, set the Protocol type and issue the Connect method - and just wait for things to happen.
When in secure mode you can connect to SSH servers, which are standard today in remote console communication. wodSSH is able to automatically determine if the remote server is based on SSH1 or SSH2 protocol version and communicate accordingly. It will provide you with information about the remote server's Fingerprint, so you can always get authenticated information about remote server.
ASP, VB, VC, VBS - one fits all....
wodSSH can be used as scripting client. You can easily set it up to connect to server, execute one or more commands, wait for a response and just disconnect - all of it fully automated. It also supports blocking and non-blocking operations, thus it's suitable for many environments, such as ASP.
Since version 1.0.2.2 wodSSH has also supported a UNIX "expect"-like feature -
use WaitFor and Execute commands to easily execute several
commands in a row, waiting each one to finish and provide you with some results.
When you're unsure when to send the actual command, wodSSH can help. Using its unique Prompt property, it can fire an event for you whenever the remote server sends a prompt to enter a new command. All you have to do is send a new command once this event is fired.
Authentication - select between login/password and login/publickey..
Or use both..
Since version 1.0.1.1 wodSSH has also supported public key authentication (only
for SSH2 protocol!). Dealing
with keys is easy - we have included a Keys object that will allow you to
generate, load, and save keys and pass them to wodSSH. This way you can easily
use your private key to authenticate with the server. The Keys object will also
generate public key data that should be pasted directly on the server's
authorization files in the required format.
Proxy support
wodSSH support SOCKS4/5 proxies (since version 2.0.0.0), as well tunnels
through WEB proxy servers (using CONNECT command). You can use your favorite
proxy server to access the Internet.
Licensing
Upon purchase, you have the right to distribute wodSSH.DLL,
wodSSH.OCX and wodKeys.DLL binaries in your applications free of charge. To
license your existing versions (not DEMO version!), in the DLL version use the
LicenseKey property with the key you receive from us. In the OCX version you don't
need to setup your key, it will be handled by your programming environment.
Wait no more - communicate securely. Check out wodSSH.
Additional notes
* wodKeys component is included in our setup package free of charge. It can be used for private key management - to Generate new keys,
Load/Save the, obtain public keys etc.. the helpfile can be found here.