Pyglobus status from matt

[Ivan R. Judson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Rodriguez DSD staff [mailto:MKRodriguez at lbl.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:25 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: kjackson at portnoy.lbl.gov; olson at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: Hey
> 
> Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> >Hey man,
> >
> >Hope things are going well with you. Thanks for coming out 
> and getting 
> >stuff done. Any idea where things are now? What still needs 
> to be done 
> >vs what is finished?
> >
> >We're trying to figure out what's left to do before we move 
> to a stock 
> >pyGlobus 2.4 for ag stuff.
> >
> >--Ivan
> >
> >  
> >
> The AG stuff should work with pyGlobus out of cvs.
> 
> Here is a list of things that I know you guys want.
> 
> 1. timeout on gsi sockets. In the GSITCPSocket class you can 
> create a connection and one of the arguments in TCPIOAttr. 
> You can call the method set_keepalive on the attr.
> 
> I remember you complaining about a socket connection hanging 
> and subsequently hanging your application.
> Here is what the globus documentation says about about keepalive.
> 
>  * This attribute is used to determine whether or not to periodically
>  * send "keepalive" messages on a connected socket handle. This may
>  * enable earlier detection of broken connections.
> 
> Tell me if this will work for you.
> 
> 2. GridFtpServer. I have to implement this. It'll take some time.
> 
> 3. Some more security stuff: I don't know specifically what 
> you guys want here.
> 
> You want the ability to set a python callback to 
> grid_proxy_init or myproxy  that will read in a password.
> 
> You also want some other things that PyOpenSSL provides. You 
> should talk with bob and come up with a list or a simple API 
> of what you want, and I'll talk with Keith about the best way 
> to do this.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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