<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><meta name="robots" content="noindex"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <!-- THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED FROM THE GLOBUS SOURCE CODE DO NOT MODIFY. --> <title>Globus Reference Manual</title> <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.7.4 --> <div id="navrow1" class="tabs"> <ul class="tablist"> <li class="current"><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> <li><a href="annotated.html"><span>Data Structures</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="side-nav" class="ui-resizable side-nav-resizable"> <div id="nav-tree"> <div id="nav-tree-contents"> </div> </div> <div id="splitbar" style="-moz-user-select:none;" class="ui-resizable-handle"> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> initNavTree('index.html',''); </script> <div id="doc-content"> <div class="header"> <div class="headertitle"> <div class="title">globus gass transfer Documentation</div> </div> </div> <div class="contents"> <div class="textblock"><p>The GASS Transfer API is the core part of the GASS (Global Access to Secondary Storage) component of the Globus Toolkit. The purpose of GASS is to provide a simple way to enable grid applications to securely stage and access data to and from remote file servers using a simple protocol-independent API.</p> <p>The GASS Transfer API provides a way to implement both <a class="el" href="group__globus__gass__transfer__client.html">client</a> and <a class="el" href="group__globus__gass__transfer__server.html">server</a> components. These share common data block and request management functionality. Client-specific functions are provided to implement file "get", "put", and "append" operations. Server-specific functions are provided to implement servers which service such requests. Client and server functionality can be included in a single application, so one could implement proxies or cross-protocol bridges.</p> <p>The GASS Transfer API is easily extensible to support different remote data access protocols. The standard Globus distribution includes client-side support for the http, and https protocols, as well as server-side support for the http and https protocols. An application which requires additional protocol support may add this through the <a class="el" href="group__globus__gass__transfer__protocol.html">protocol module interface</a>.</p> <p>The GASS Transfer API is defined in the header file "globus_gass_transfer.h"</p> <p>The <a class="el" href="group__globus__gass__transfer__activation.html#ga3c4edff0d27f1038ef7d8df297d205ea" title="Module descriptor.">GLOBUS_GASS_TRANSFER_MODULE</a> must be activated before calling any functions in this API.</p> <a href="main.html" target="_top">View documentation without frames</a><br> <a href="index.html" target="_top">View documentation with frames</a><br> </div></div> </div> <div id="nav-path" class="navpath"> <ul> <hr> <p align="center"> <a href="http://www.globus.org/toolkit/about.html" target="_top">about globus</a> | <a href="http://www.globus.org/toolkit/" target="_top">globus toolkit</a> | <a href="https://dev.globus.org/wiki/Welcome/" target="_top">dev.globus</a> <br> <br> Comments? <a href="mailto:webmaster@globus.org">webmaster@globus.org</a> </body> </html>