slaveBase::copy between differing url hosts

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 22:59, schrieb Mike 'Mike' Jones:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Friday 04 February 2005 13:00, Mike 'Mike' Jones wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been writing a kio slave.  The protocol I'm implementing, gsiftp,
> > > supports the movement of data from one URL to another URL without the
> > > data passing through the client machine, so-called third party file
> > > transfer.
<schnappi>
> I can see this being useful for 3 protocols:
> 1 GridFTP (gsiftp:// urls) -- a basic KIO slave produced already as part
>   of a project called GrEnaDE (get and listDir implemented), I'm
>   currently working on an updated release with more functionality (only
>   really missing the 3rd party stuff now).
> 2 Storage Resource Broker (from San Diego Supercomputer Centre)
> 3 http + gridsite (https:// urls but may have to call them htcp)
>
> I would probably have a crack at 2 and 3 as well if I could do remote to
> (other) remote copies.
>
> (BTW, the FTP rfc also envisages 3rd party file transfer. Data could in
> principle be copied directly from a gsiftp server to an ftp server  or
> even between two vanilla ftp servers.  The latter would, only require PASV
> on one server and PORT on the other and servers that support those
> commands.)

How does gsiftp relate to FXP? Listed at http://www.gftp.org

Regards
Friedrich
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