[EXTERNAL] Re: [Discuss] Understanding How to Implement a Custom Client

[Brown, Joshua]

Thanks for the suggestion, my issue with using a command line tool is it would require copying a file to the filesystem before globus-url-copy can copy it, at least as far as I am aware. So if the file to be transferred is in a database it is a two-step process, and if the file sizes are large this is added and unneeded work. Or are you suggesting I just include the header files and turn the .c files into a library, this could work, I think I will need a lot of the same logic.

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From: Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch <Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 4:59 PM
To: discuss at gridcf.org
Cc: Brown, Joshua <brownjs at ornl.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Discuss] Understanding How to Implement a Custom Client

Hi Joshua,

> What I am trying to do is have my application working as a client to a GridFTP server. My application asks the GridFTP server to execute a transfer between itself and another GridFTP server. 

Your application could invoke the standard client: globus-url-copy.
It supports the third-party transfer paradigm you described.