# How to use Downloads.download() with SFTP?

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**Created:** [February 15, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-use-downloads-download-with-sftp/76480 "2022-02-15T10:22:03Z")\
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Hi,  
Is it possible to do SFTP with Julia ? I use filezilla to download files on a remote computer but I do not manage to access it with Julia. Is there something wrong in the URL format ?  
Thanks for your reply !

```julia
using Downloads
WARNING: using Downloads.download in module Main conflicts with an existing identifier.

Downloads.download("sftp://user@xx.xx.xx.xx:22/home/user/file.csv")
ERROR: Error in the SSH layer while requesting user@xx.xx.xx.xx:22/home/user/file.csv
Stacktrace:
  [1] (::Downloads.var"#9#18"{IOStream, Base.DevNull, Nothing, Vector{Pair{String, String}}, Float64, Nothing, Bool, Bool, String, Int64, Bool, Bool})(easy::Downloads.Curl.Easy)
    @ Downloads ~/Documents/logiciels/julia-1.7.1/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Downloads/src/Downloads.jl:369
  [2] with_handle(f::Downloads.var"#9#18"{IOStream, Base.DevNull, Nothing, Vector{Pair{String, String}}, Float64, Nothing, Bool, Bool, String, Int64, Bool, Bool}, handle::Downloads.Curl.Easy)
    @ Downloads.Curl ~/Documents/logiciels/julia-1.7.1/share/julia/stdlib/v1.7/Downloads/src/Curl/Curl.jl:64
  [3] #8

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