Hi Adrian,
This was recently addressed and will be included in the next release, GT 5.2.4.
Here is the issue for details:
http://jira.globus.org/browse/GT-32
Please take a look and see if that will provide what you need.
Cheers,
Stu
On Jan 17, 2013, at Jan 17, 6:12 AM, Adrian Stelmaszyk wrote:
> There are *other* components that use the globus-ftp-client and globus-xio
> *libraries* (e.g. the FTS transfer agents), where the IPv6 option is *not*
> enabled by default, and can only be enabled via specific API calls
> (globus_ftp_client_operationattr_set_allow_ipv6,
> globus_io_attr_set_tcp_allow_ipv6).
> It would be much preferable if IPv6 could be enabled (via an environment
> variable, or the like) at the Globus library level, rather than having to
> modify all existing users of the Globus libraries and add a configuration
> option in each of them. The history of GGUS #80628 seems to imply that Globus
> was willing to address this at the library level, but, as of GT5.2.3 (I just
> checked it as well) nothing has occurred yet there.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Adrian Stelmaszyk
