SSH/SFTP Error: Must first connect to the SSH server

The following error is explained in this post:

ChilkatLog:
  DownloadFileByName:
    DllDate: Apr 25 2018
    ChilkatVersion: 9.5.0.73
    UnlockPrefix: *
    Architecture: Little Endian; 64-bit
    Language: Cocoa Objective-C
    VerboseLogging: 0
    SftpVersion: 3
    Component successfully unlocked using purchased unlock code.
    Must first connect to the SSH server.
  --DownloadFileByName
--ChilkatLog

The above error can happen after a long period of inactivity. Let’s say your application successfully connected and authenticated w/ the SFTP server, did some things, and then did not do anything else for a long period of time.  Meanwhile, the SFTP server decides to disconnect because the client has been inactive for too long.  The client (your app + Chilkat) would only discover that the server has dropped the connection once it tries to do something, such as in a call to DownloadFileByName.  The non-connected socket is discovered in the 1st attempt to send a message, and thus you receive the above error.

There are two possible actions an application might take:

1. Prevent the disconnect by periodically calling sftp.SendIgnore to keep the connection from being inactive.
2. (auto-recovery)  If DownloadFileByName (or some other method) returns false/0 to indicate failure, examine the sftp.IsConnected property.  If not connected, then automatically re-connect, re-authenticate, and call InitializeSftp to get back to a connected state, and then retry the method.