[Swift-devel] gridftp UI

[Jonathan Monette]

On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:54 -0700, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 13:49 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
>>> Why not use Globus Online?
>> 
>> Convenience/usability. I hit F3 or enter on coasters.log, and it quickly
>> pops up in a viewer/editor. I hit F8 and the file gets deleted. When I
>> copy files, I get immediate feedback (in particular progress with
>> estimated times and speed and everything).
>> 
>> Otherwise GO is pretty cute.
> 
> While we're here, I don't see any good reason why Globus Online couldn't
> support similar features (e.g., delete files, create directories,
> view/edit files, better feedback on transfers, etc.). It might even go
> as far as starting jobs on the endpoints.
> 
> And the agent could support uploading a proxy directly so that getting a
> credential would take one step less. It would even be more secure to not
> have to go through a third-party (one less thing to trust).
You can already upload a proxy that you have created.  Most of the GO commands accept a -g option which gets the credential that was used when you use gsissh.
> 
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