[lhoff]

That doesn't really help when transfering a file. That was one of the user cases where the author had problem with.

[tantalor]

Yes it would because the file transfer would continue inside the screen session instead of dying with the ssh session.

[monocasa]

I think they meant they were using scp to transfer files from the remote computer to the local one.

[tantalor]

That wouldn't be an "Idle SSH Session".

[jimmaswell]

Or keeping an SSH session open for proxy tunneling when PuTTy is only capable of automatically reconnecting on certain disconnects and not others for some stupid reason.

[lazyjones]

rsync over ssh solves this... Just start it again and transfer the remaining part.