diff --git a/src/wolfscp.c b/src/wolfscp.c
index 184d057c..e5d95a3e 100644
--- a/src/wolfscp.c
+++ b/src/wolfscp.c
@@ -883,6 +883,40 @@ int DoScpSource(WOLFSSH* ssh)
     return ret;
 }
 
+/* Contract is in wolfssh/wolfscp.h. */
+int wolfSSH_SCP_accept(WOLFSSH* ssh)
+{
+    int ret;
+
+    if (ssh == NULL)
+        return WS_BAD_ARGUMENT;
+
+    /* Clear a want left by the previous call so the retry starts clean,
+     * the way the other re-entrant entry points do. */
+    if (ssh->error == WS_WANT_READ || ssh->error == WS_WANT_WRITE)
+        ssh->error = WS_SUCCESS;
+
+    ret = DoScpRequest(ssh);
+
+    if (ret >= WS_SUCCESS) {
+        /* The tail of DoScpRequest() passes a read count through, so treat
+         * anything non-negative as done the way wolfSSH_accept() does. */
+        ret = WS_SCP_COMPLETE;
+    }
+    else {
+        /* A non-blocking want on a read path surfaces as a generic error
+         * with the want recorded in ssh->error (see GetInputData), so
+         * report it as the want the caller is told to retry on. */
+        int err = wolfSSH_get_error(ssh);
+
+        if (err == WS_WANT_READ || err == WS_WANT_WRITE)
+            ret = err;
+    }
+
+    return ret;
+}
+
+
 int DoScpRequest(WOLFSSH* ssh)
 {
     int ret = WS_SUCCESS;
diff --git a/wolfssh/wolfscp.h b/wolfssh/wolfscp.h
index 32e9dc7d..1ebeb339 100644
--- a/wolfssh/wolfscp.h
+++ b/wolfssh/wolfscp.h
@@ -158,6 +158,17 @@ WOLFSSH_API int   wolfSSH_SCP_to(WOLFSSH* ssh, const char* src,
         const char* dst);
 WOLFSSH_API int   wolfSSH_SCP_from(WOLFSSH* ssh, const char* src,
         const char* dst);
+/* Server side. Drives an SCP transfer on a channel whose "exec scp ..."
+ * command is already bound. This is the same work wolfSSH_accept() does
+ * through its WS_SCP_INIT re-entry, exposed so an application can start the
+ * transfer itself; use one or the other, not both. Call it once
+ * wolfSSH_accept() has returned and the exec channel-request callback has
+ * reported an SCP command, not from inside that callback.
+ *
+ * Returns WS_SCP_COMPLETE when the transfer is done. On a non-blocking
+ * socket it returns WS_WANT_READ or WS_WANT_WRITE with the transfer part
+ * done; call it again on the same session until it completes. */
+WOLFSSH_API int   wolfSSH_SCP_accept(WOLFSSH* ssh);
 
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus