Establishing a connection

You may establish a secure connection using the IpClientSsh and com.jscape.inet.ssh.util.SshParameters classes. The IpClientSsh class is a subclass of the com.jscape.inet.ipclient.IpClient class making all methods in this class available for use. The SshParameters class will contain all information needed to connect and authenticate with your SSH server for use in creating a secure tunnel.

Example

The example below demonstrates establishing a secure tunnel to the POP (Post Office Protocol) service running on the host myhost.com. This is an example only as it does not provide information on authenticating with the POP server or retrieving email. If you wish to establish a secure tunnel to a POP server use the com.jscape.inet.popssh.PopSsh class created for this purpose.

// SSH hostname

String sshHostname = "myhost.com";

// SSH username

String sshUsername = "jsmith";

// SSH password

String sshPassword = "secret";

// POP3 service hostname

String popHostname = "myhost.com";

// POP3 service port

int popPort = 110;

// create SSH authentication info

SshParameters sshParams = new SshParameters(sshHostname,sshUsername,sshPassword);

// create new tunnel to specified POP3 server hostname and POP3 service port

IpClientSsh tunnel = new IpClientSsh(sshParams,popHostname,popPort);

// establish tunnel

tunnel.connect();