Index: SFTPRepository.java
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--- SFTPRepository.java	(revision 603552)
+++ SFTPRepository.java	(working copy)
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@
     public Resource resolveResource(String path) {
         try {
             ChannelSftp c = getSftpChannel(path);
-            Collection r = c.ls(path);
+			
+            Collection r = c.ls(getRelativePath(path));
+			
             if (r != null) {
                 for (Iterator iter = r.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
                     Object obj = iter.next();
@@ -99,6 +103,7 @@
             Message.debug("reolving resource error: " + e.getMessage());
             // silent fail, return unexisting resource
         }
+		
         return new BasicResource(path, false, 0, 0, false);
     }
 
@@ -119,7 +124,12 @@
         fireTransferInitiated(getResource(source), TransferEvent.REQUEST_GET);
         ChannelSftp c = getSftpChannel(source);
         try {
-            c.get(source, destination.getAbsolutePath(), new MyProgressMonitor());
+			String relativePath = getRelativePath(source);
+            c.get(relativePath, destination.getAbsolutePath(), new MyProgressMonitor());
+		} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+			IOException ex = new IOException(e.getMessage() + " The uri is in the wrong format. Please use scheme://user:pass@hostname/path/to/repository.");
+            ex.initCause(e);
         } catch (SftpException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
             IOException ex = new IOException("impossible to get " + source + " on " + getHost()
@@ -132,14 +142,23 @@
     public void put(File source, String destination, boolean overwrite) throws IOException {
         fireTransferInitiated(getResource(destination), TransferEvent.REQUEST_PUT);
         ChannelSftp c = getSftpChannel(destination);
+		
         try {
-            if (!overwrite && checkExistence(destination, c)) {
+			String path = getRelativePath(destination);
+			
+            if (!overwrite && checkExistence(path, c)) {
                 throw new IOException("destination file exists and overwrite == true");
             }
-            if (destination.indexOf('/') != -1) {
-                mkdirs(destination.substring(0, destination.lastIndexOf('/')), c);
+			
+            if (path.indexOf('/') != -1) {
+                mkdirs(path.substring(0, path.lastIndexOf('/')), c);
             }
-            c.put(source.getAbsolutePath(), destination, new MyProgressMonitor());
+			
+            c.put(source.getAbsolutePath(), path, new MyProgressMonitor());
+        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
+			IOException ex = new IOException(e.getMessage() + " The uri is in the wrong format. Please use scheme://user:pass@hostname/path/to/repository.");
+			ex.initCause(e);
+			throw ex;
         } catch (SftpException e) {
             IOException ex = new IOException(e.getMessage());
             ex.initCause(e);
@@ -162,7 +181,23 @@
             c.mkdir(directory);
         }
     }
+	
+	private String getRelativePath(String path) throws URISyntaxException {
+		String result = null;
+		URI uri = new URI(path);
+		result = uri.getPath();
+		
+		if (result == null) {
+			throw new URISyntaxException(path, "Missing path in URI.");
+		}
+		
+		if (result.indexOf('/') == 0) {
+			result = '.' + result;
+		}
 
+		return result;
+	}
+
     public List list(String parent) throws IOException {
         try {
             ChannelSftp c = getSftpChannel(parent);